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Top 23 Python Youtube Projects
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new-pac
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Hitomi-Downloader
:cake: Desktop utility to download images/videos/music/text from various websites, and more.
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pytube
A lightweight, dependency-free Python library (and command-line utility) for downloading YouTube Videos.
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Project mention: YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-10
One tool you might like is MeTube. While it can't schedule anything, I have it running it on a headless Beelink computer. So if I want to grab a video or channel, I can open a browser on any device, go to the server, and tell it to fetch whatever I want. The download location is set to a NAS so I can view the media with any device as well. It even supports extended yt-dlp options, so you can even tell it to use things like SponsorBlock. It's pretty great overall
https://github.com/alexta69/metube
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Consider also Tube Archivist. If you just want to download a few videos it's overkill, but I use it to archive and index technical channels I like. It can do advanced full text and metadata searches on the transcription/subtitles as well as comments (and title and description). Much better than what alphabet provides, annoyingly.
https://www.tubearchivist.com/
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youtube-transcript-api
This is a python API which allows you to get the transcript/subtitles for a given YouTube video. It also works for automatically generated subtitles and it does not require an API key nor a headless browser, like other selenium based solutions do!
First, I had to get the data. I thought this would be a good place to use Google Cloud API which can extract Youtube transcripts. But while setting up this service, I realized there was an even easier way; by extracting the auto-generated captions from YouTube. (Thankyou _jdepoix _for the library to do so, https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api).
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vidgear
A High-performance cross-platform Video Processing Python framework powerpacked with unique trailblazing features :fire:
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ytmdl
A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
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Project mention: iSponsorBlockTV v2.4.0: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-24
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Project mention: SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-12
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Project mention: YouTube Full Text Search – Search All of a YouTube Channel from the CLI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-31
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python Youtube discussion
Python Youtube related posts
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Show HN: Downloads and saves any YouTube videos and playlists
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The Singoff-agen — Learning Through Dumb Projects
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iSponsorBlockTV v2.4.0: SponsorBlock for TVs and game consoles
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YouTube-transcript-API 1.0.0 released
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YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients
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Turn Entire YouTube Playlists to Markdown Formatted TextBooks(In Any Language)
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Youtube projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | new-pac | 61,643 |
| 2 | Hitomi-Downloader | 24,783 |
| 3 | pytube | 12,738 |
| 4 | MoneyPrinterV2 | 11,448 |
| 5 | youtube-dl-gui | 9,369 |
| 6 | MeTube | 8,802 |
| 7 | tubearchivist | 6,010 |
| 8 | YT-Spammer-Purge | 4,609 |
| 9 | youtube-transcript-api | 3,876 |
| 10 | vidgear | 3,508 |
| 11 | ytmdl | 3,315 |
| 12 | iSponsorBlockTV | 2,906 |
| 13 | tubesync | 2,270 |
| 14 | ytdl-sub | 2,216 |
| 15 | yark | 2,155 |
| 16 | ytmusicapi | 2,013 |
| 17 | yt-fts | 1,691 |
| 18 | YouTube-Viewer | 1,562 |
| 19 | gridplayer | 1,489 |
| 20 | smd | 1,404 |
| 21 | yt-whisper | 1,396 |
| 22 | savify | 1,228 |
| 23 | advertools | 1,226 |
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