Youtube Video Downloader

• A Python gradio app that downloads YouTube videos given their URL.
• It also provides an option to download only the audio track for the given video URL.

Demo Video:

yt_vid_downloader_demo.mp4

Pre-requisites:

FFMPEG: sudo apt install ffmpeg

Setup:

• Clone the repo and move to the root dir.
• Create a python virtual environment.
• Install the requirements.
• Ignore the dependency conflict between gradio and yt-dlp
• Run main_gradio.py

Quick setup for Windows 10/11:

• Install Docker Desktop
• Run the YT_Video_Downloader_Setup.bat (only the first time) inside the docker directory by double clicking on it.
• It automatically pulls a working image (~500 MBs) from the public repo of yt_video_downloader from the docker hub, then creates a container from it and runs it.
• There's no need to clone the repo here as the .bat file and the docker image from the docker hub does everything here.
• Then use the docker desktop console to stop and start this container as required.
• Troubleshoot: Whenever there's any issue simply delete both the yt_video_downloader container and image in the docker desktop console and re-run the YT_Video_Downloader_Setup.bat (only once).

Note:

• Replaced pytube with yt-dlp (which is a fork of youtube-dl but better)
• Simply install the requirements as the versions mentioned, it'd work fine