I am new to python and I want to download a video from a given URL. So far I've heard about urllib, urllib2 and requests modules that help to download a video from URL, but when I tried them I apparently got all the data on that page and I don't know what I got, or even if the video is in there since the size of the output file is usually 50-170 KB and videos are usually way more than that. I'll post two codes of mine that are meant to download a video so you can tell me if they have any problem. If they are okay, can you tell me how to separate the video from what I got or if the video is even there? 1. import requests def download_file(url): local_filename = url.split('/')[-1] r = requests.get(url, stream=True) with open("D://"+local_filename, 'wb') as f: for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=1024): if chunk: f.write(chunk) earl = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYjZTdrJlA" download_file(earl) 2. import urllib2 import os earl="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBYjZTdrJlA" y= True try: response=urllib2.urlopen(earl) except urllib2.HTTPError: print "oopsy, website wont allow it" y=False def downloader(url): response=urllib2.urlopen(url) info = response.read() print info fx= open(os.path.join("D://", "video.mp4"),'wb') for line in info: fx.write(line) fx.close() print "done" if(y): downloader(earl) Continue reading...
