How to write a python script for downloading a video from YouTube and saving it to a directory

Question

I want to download a video from YouTube using a python script and save it to a particular location. How do I do it?

Answer 1

First download pytube using the following code 

pip install pytube

Then download the video using the following

from pytube import YouTube
yt = YouTube("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06H7OcPd-g")
yt = yt.get('mp4','720p')
yt.download('/path/to/download/directory')