Download YouTube video using Python to a certain directory

Question

I have tried the following code to download a video in YouTube and it is working, but I want to save the video at a particular location. Now it is saving the video in

Answer 1

You should put it inside ydl_opts:

ydl_opts = {
    'outtmpl': os.path.join(download_path, '%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s'),
}

In your case, download_path should be 'C:/Users/Desktop'. Use %(title)s.%(ext)s instead of %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s if you prefer a file name without video ID.

Or you can just os.chdir(path) to change the directory to where you want the download to be before you start your download.

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import youtube_dl
import os

ydl_opts = {}
os.chdir('C:/Users/Desktop')
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06H7OcPd-g'])