YoutubeDownloader¶

class modusa.tools.youtube_downloader.YoutubeDownloader[source]¶

Bases: ModusaTool

Download highest quality audio/video from YouTube.

Note

The engine uses yt_dlp python package to download content from YouTube.

static download(url: str, content_type: str, output_dir: str | Path) → Path[source]¶

Downloads audio/video from YouTube.

# To download audio
from modusa.io import YoutubeDownloader
audio_fp = YoutubeDownloader.download(
        url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIpw9-Y_N0g",
        content_type="audio",
        output_dir="."
)

# To download video
from modusa.engines import YoutubeDownloaderEngine
video_fp = YoutubeDownloader.download(
        url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIpw9-Y_N0g",
        content_type="audio",
        output_dir="."
)

Parameters:

url (str) – Link to the YouTube video.
content_type (str) – “audio” or “video”
output_dir (str | Path) – Directory to save the YouTube content.

Returns:

File path of the downloaded content.

Return type:

Path