ATTENTION! This program do not actually download youtube video asynchronously!

wrong_async_download_youtube.py

import asyncio
import youtube_dl

async def progress(url):
    print('Progressing: ', url)
    await asyncio.sleep(1)
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({}) as ydl:
        ydl.download([url])
    print('End: ', url)


async def main():
    urls = [
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiTbyKrKsYM",
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKtoreimcQ8"
    ]

    await asyncio.gather(
        *[progress(url) for url in urls]
    )

asyncio.run(main())