We will be writing a program that takes the YouTube playlist link and web-scraps all the video links using Selenium and download the videos using YouTube-dl.

This post will be about a simple project 'YoPlaDo-YouTube Playlist Downloader' built using Python. Why pay for a service you can build with a few lines of code? Wait a minute, you are a Python developer. Exams are important, you can pay for them and if it is about learning, let it take some more time, we have entire life?

You can download the playlist videos one-by-one(until that's a huge one). OOPS, either they download one video at a time or if they download a complete playlist at once, they are paid ones. Now, there are websites/applications to download YouTube videos.

Or like, you wanted to learn a new skill/language/framework from YouTube and you get a good 'playlist' but limited storage space in your phone. Have you ever been in a situation like, you are having you final exams in a week or so and you haven't attended a single lecture(I mean mindfully, of course)? Then you ask YouTube for help (happens in my case every time) and what you get is a huge(even larger than node_modules) playlist to watch and limited data/data-speed at your place. Note:This post is just for educational purpose to show the use of Webscraping.

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