Telegram Bot To Download Youtube Playlist Apr 2026

[Unit] Description=YouTube Playlist Telegram Bot After=network.target [Service] User=youruser WorkingDirectory=/home/youruser/youtube-playlist-bot ExecStart=/home/youruser/youtube-playlist-bot/venv/bin/python bot.py Restart=always

import yt_dlp import asyncio from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor import os executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=2)

app.add_handler(CallbackQueryHandler(format_choice)) Create downloader.py : Telegram Bot To Download Youtube Playlist

pip install python-telegram-bot[job-queue] yt-dlp asyncio aiofiles mkdir downloads temp_files logs 3. Core Design & Architecture | Component | Responsibility | |-----------|----------------| | Telegram Handler | Receives messages, validates URLs, manages user state | | Download Worker | Uses yt-dlp to fetch playlist metadata & download files | | Queue Manager | Prevents overload; processes one playlist per user sequentially | | File Sender | Uploads files to Telegram with progress feedback | | Cleaner | Deletes local files after sending (or after 1 hour) | 4. Implementation Step-by-Step 4.1 Basic Bot Skeleton Create bot.py :

Add to main:

if == " main ": main() 4.2 Add Inline Keyboard & Callback from telegram import InlineKeyboardButton, InlineKeyboardMarkup, Update from telegram.ext import CallbackQueryHandler async def format_choice(update: Update, context): query = update.callback_query await query.answer() choice = query.data # 'audio' or 'video' context.user_data['format'] = choice url = context.user_data['playlist_url']

def get_playlist_info(url): ydl_opts = 'quiet': True, 'extract_flat': True with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False) entries = info.get('entries', []) return ['id': e['id'], 'title': e['title'], 'url': f"https://youtube.com/watch?v=e['id']" for e in entries[:15]] # limit to 15 download=False) entries = info.get('entries'

with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: ydl.download([video_url]) # return actual file path info = ydl.extract_info(video_url, download=False) filename = ydl.prepare_filename(info).replace('.webm', '.mp4') return filename