Flask YouTube Audio Downloader

YouTube video downloader is one of the easiest and beginner friendly project to do during learning of python and Flask. Today we will up a game little and make an API with flask that sends audio file in response

Make virtual environment in anacondaconda create --name yt-downloader pythonconda activate yt-downloader

Installing required libraries

We will be installing flask framework for parsing and getting web requests, youtube-dl library for getting official video URL and downloading to server side and flask-cors for handling cross site origin resource error that appears when we fetch data from third party websites.pip install flask
pip install youtube-dl
pip install flask-cors

Flask initial setup

app.py

Implementation

Now let's improve on to above code and write that actually downloads the audio

See it working

This project is hosted in https://yt.caretsys.tech/