Installing ffmpeg for Jupyter Notebook

Question

I want to use ffmpeg to download a video from Youtube to mp3

The code is:

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import youtube_dl

ydl_opts = {'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'postprocessors': [{
        'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
        'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
        'preferredquality': '192',
    }],
}

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
    ydl.download(['the_url'])

But obviously I get the error: ffprobe/avprobe and ffmpeg/avconv not found. Please install one.

I installed ffmpeg but my question is do I need to import something now or put path were I saved the .exe

Do you have the same error after the installation of ffmpeg? You probably need to add the path of the directory that contains the ffmpeg executables to the `PATH` environment variable. — Hernán Alarcón, Jan 15 '21 at 19:51

anonimostilton · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-16T12:30:13.047

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The problem was that I forgot restarting Jupyter. But before you need to add the path of the directory that contains the ffmpeg executables to the PATH environment variable. I found a video that explains it pretty well on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtmgCb8NcE&ab_channel=LinuxLeech

edited Jan 16 '21 at 12:30

answered Jan 16 '21 at 11:28

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