youtube-dl download using python in a specific folder and of a particular quality

import subprocess

import tempfile

import os

import youtube_dl

import time

class MyLogger(object):

    def debug(self, msg):

        pass

    def warning(self, msg):

        pass

    def error(self, msg):

        print(msg)

def my_hook(d):

    if d['status'] == 'finished':

        print('Done downloading, now converting ...')

ydl_opts = {

    

    'outtmpl': './temp/ZCL5.mp4',

    'logger': MyLogger(),

    'progress_hooks': [my_hook],

    'format': 'worst'

}

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:

    starttime = time.time()

    ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHAkDTlv8fA'])

    completeTime = time.time()

    print(completeTime - starttime)

       

    

print("printing file in temp dir")

basepath = tempfile.gettempdir()

for entry in os.listdir(basepath):

    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(basepath, entry)):

        print("printing file in temp dir")

        print(entry)

        print("out of loop")

For more options check https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/3e4cedf9e8cd3157df2457df7274d0c842421945/youtube_dl/options.py

field to check is "dest"

for example, the output field was
   '-o', '--output',
        dest='outtmpl', metavar='TEMPLATE',