Downloading several videos at the same time using pytube

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I made a program that is able to download and convert the youtube playlist video into mp3. However, this program does one task at a time. Is it possible to make so that it can download and convert several videos at the same time?

I tried searching up in the Google but could not find a method that satisfy my needs.

May you give me some clue or things that I need to look it up to help me breakthrough this problem?

Asked By: attat

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Answer 1

You can try python Threading. Create a list of url’s that u need to download and create a thread instance for each of the URL. U can refer to this site for more clarity.

https://www.shanelynn.ie/using-python-threading-for-multiple-results-queue/

Answered By: Dexter0411

Answer 2

First, i created a list of videos ids.
then i create a download function as follow

from pytube import YouTube
import time
def func(idx):
    file_name=idx+'.mp4'
    video_link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={}'.format(idx)
    if not os.path.isfile(os.path.join('videos',file_name)):#if file dont exist already, download it
        try:#if video fail to download such a private video or delted video
            yt = YouTube(video_link)
            yt.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').order_by('resolution').asc().first().download(filename=file_name,output_path='videos')
            time.sleep(5)              
        except Exception as e: 
                print(e)
                pass

Then i call this function in parallel

from multiprocessing import Pool
import os
with Pool(4) as p:
    features = p.map(func, ids_list)

Answered By: Talha Anwar

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