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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