

You’ll see an executable file for each of the three ffbinaries we need, ffmpeg, ffprobe, and ffplay. If you’re a Windows user what you’ll want to do is download the binaries and unzip the files. First, we’re going to download the binaries from This part is different for Windows and OSX users. We’ll be using this in conjunction with youtube-dl to convert the video we download into an audio file. FFmpeg is an open source and free software for handling, video, audio, and other multimedia files. After these two libraries are done installing, we’re going to want to install FFmpeg, FFprobe, and FFplay.

Since youtube-dl and click are both Python libraries, we can install both at the same time with pip: pip install youtube-dl click What libraries/softwares will we need to download/configure?īefore we can build our YouTube video and audio downloader, we have to download and configure our libraries.

You can find the source code here Prerequisities Have you ever wanted to download the audio from a YouTube video? In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to build your own free YouTube video downloader app.
