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How to Build a Python Program to Download YouTube Videos.

You can quickly watch videos with a few mouse clicks, but downloading videos is difficult. But in a recent upgrade, YouTube now allows you to save videos in its download folder for offline viewing. Still, you are unable to save them locally.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Python code to download YouTube videos. As you may know, one of Python's great strengths is its huge number of modules and libraries. We will write the Python script using the popular pytube package.

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