I am trying to write script in python where a user is prompted to enter a youtube link on the command line. This link should then be downloaded
from pytube import YouTube
downloadFile = raw_input("Enter your Youtube link: ")
YouTube(downloadFile).streams.first().download()
However when the link is entered on the command line I get the following:
File "dl.py", line 10, in <module>
YouTube(downloadFile).streams.first().download()
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pytube/__main__.py", line 69, in __init__
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pytube/extract.py", line 43, in video_id
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/pytube/helpers.py", line 39, in regex_search
pytube.exceptions.RegexMatchError: regex pattern ((?:v=|\/)([0-9A-Za-z_-]{11}).*) had zero matches
I am able to get get it working via python interpeter.
Any suggestions are welcome!
Ok, after a bit of rooting around this seems to do the trick
import sys # import sys
import pytube
link = raw_input('Please enter a url link\n')
yt = pytube.YouTube(link)
stream = yt.streams.first()
finished = stream.download()
print 'Download is complete'
sys.exit()