Using Channels

This guide will walk you through the basics of working with pytubefix Channels.

Creating a Channel

Using pytubefix to interact with channels is similar to interacting with playlists. Begin by importing the Channel class:

>>> from pytubefix import Channel

Now let’s create a channel object. You can do this by initializing the object with a channel URL:

>>> c = Channel('https://www.youtube.com/@ProgrammingKnowledge/featured')

Or you can create one from a link to the channel’s video page:

>>> c = Channel('https://www.youtube.com/@ProgrammingKnowledge/videos')

Now, we have a Channel object called c that we can do some work with.

get the channel name:

from pytubefix import Channel

c = Channel("https://www.youtube.com/@ProgrammingKnowledge/featured")

print(f'Channel name: {c.channel_name}')

Interacting with a channel

Fundamentally, a Channel object is just a container for YouTube objects.

If, for example, we wanted to download all of the videos created by a channel, we would do the following:

from pytubefix import Channel

c = Channel("https://www.youtube.com/@ProgrammingKnowledge")

print(f'Downloading videos by: {c.channel_name}')

for video in c.videos:
    download = video.streams.get_highest_resolution().download()

Or, if we’re only interested in the URLs for the videos, we can look at those as well:

>>> for url in c.video_urls[:3]:
>>>     print(url.watch_url)
['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMqMU1U2MCU',
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfInrtWq8Y',
'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP9WrMw6Gzg']

And that’s basically all there is to it!