This guide will walk you through the basics of working with pytube Channels.
Using pytube to interact with channels is similar to interacting with playlists. Begin by importing the Channel class:
>>> from pytube import Channel
Now let's create a channel object. You can do this by initializing the object with a channel URL:
>>> c = Channel('https://www.youtube.com/c/ProgrammingKnowledge')
Or you can create one from a link to the channel's video page:
>>> c = Channel('https://www.youtube.com/c/ProgrammingKnowledge/videos')
Now, we have a Channel <pytube.Channel>
object called c
that we can do some work with.
Fundamentally, a Channel object is just a container for YouTube objects.
If, for example, we wanted to download all of the videos created by a channel, we would do the following:
>>> print(f'Downloading videos by: {c.channel_name}')
Downloading videos by: ProgrammingKnowledge
>>> for video in c.videos:
>>> video.streams.first().download()
Or, if we're only interested in the URLs for the videos, we can look at those as well:
>>> for url in c.video_urls[:3]:
>>> print(url)
['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMqMU1U2MCU',
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfInrtWq8Y',
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9WrMw6Gzg']
And that's basically all there is to it!