pytube vs youtube-search-python

pytube

A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos. [Moved to: https://github.com/pytube/pytube] (by nficano)

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youtube-search-python

🔎 Search for YouTube videos, channels & playlists. Get 🎞 video & 📑 playlist info using link. Get search suggestions. WITHOUT YouTube Data API v3. (by alexmercerind)

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pytube		youtube-search-python
	Project
1	Mentions	3
4,575	Stars	506
-	Growth	-
8.7	Activity	8.7
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Python	Language	Python
The Unlicense	License	MIT License

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pytube

Posts with mentions or reviews of pytube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-03.

Introduction to Python functions| Creating a youtube video downloader
2 projects | dev.to | 3 Aug 2021

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/nficano/pytube

youtube-search-python

Posts with mentions or reviews of youtube-search-python. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.

ytdl-sub: a CLI tool to download and format YouTube channels + playlists for Jellyfin, no additional plugins needed
8 projects | /r/jellyfin | 2 Mar 2023

also found this - https://github.com/alexmercerind/youtube-search-python, works without an API, but no longer maintained.
Best module for scraping from youtube.
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 2 Oct 2021

This is exactly what you're looking for: https://github.com/alexmercerind/youtube-search-python
In search of music APIs which gives the name of the artist and song name from a youtube title
1 project | /r/learnpython | 23 Dec 2020

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pytube and youtube-search-python you can also consider the following projects:

pytube - A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.

igbot - 🐙 Free scripts, bots and Python API wrapper. Get free followers with our auto like, auto follow and other scripts!

vidgear - A High-performance cross-platform Video Processing Python framework powerpacked with unique trailblazing features :fire:

youtube-comment-downloader - Simple script for downloading Youtube comments without using the Youtube API

song-searcher

pytchat - library for youtube chat.

youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.

Deal - 🤝 Design by contract for Python. Write bug-free code. Add a few decorators, get static analysis and tests for free.

FireDM - python open source (Internet Download Manager) with multi-connections, high speed engine, based on python, LibCurl, and youtube_dl https://github.com/firedm/FireDM

JokeAPI-Python - An API Wrapper for Sv443's JokeAPI

ytdl-sub - Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp