python3-pafy

Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube

Description

Pafy is a Python library for interacting with YouTube from within your Python programs. Its main features include:
 * Retrieve metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail,
  keywords
 * Download video or audio at requested resolution / bitrate / format /
  filesize
 * Command line tool (ytdl) for downloading directly from the command line
 * Retrieve the URL to stream the video in a player such as vlc or mplayer
 * Works with age-restricted videos and non-embeddable videos
 * Small, standalone, single importable module file (pafy.py)
 * Select highest quality stream for download or streaming
 * Download video only (no audio) in m4v or webm format
 * Download audio only (no video) in ogg or m4a format
 * Retrieve playlists and playlist metadata

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Homepage

https://github.com/np1/pafy


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