YouTube Video Downloader — MP4, MP3, Shorts, Playlists
Pricing
Pay per usage
Download YouTube videos, Shorts, playlists and channels as MP4, MKV, WebM, AVI, MOV or audio (MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC) in 360p to 4K. Get subtitles, transcript and metadata, plus direct download links in Apify, S3 or Azure storage. Repeat downloads are skipped.
You can access the YouTube Video Downloader — MP4, MP3, Shorts, Playlists programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw" }],10 "videoIds": [],11 "maxItems": 3,12 "subtitleLanguages": [],13 "filenameParts": ["title"],14 "proxyConfiguration": {15 "useApifyProxy": True,16 "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],17 },18}19
20# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish21run = client.actor("confidential_gnat/youtube-video-downloader").call(run_input=run_input)22
23# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)24print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")25for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():26 print(item)27
28# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use YouTube Video Downloader — MP4, MP3, Shorts, Playlists API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: