In this article we will see how we can get the meta data of given youtube video stream in pafy. Pafy is a python library to download YouTube content and retrieve metadata. Pafy object is the object which contains all the information about the given video. Stream is basically available resolution of video is available on youtube. Metadata is “data that provides information about other data”. In other words, it is “data about data.” Many distinct types of metadata exist, including descriptive metadata, structural metadata, administrative metadata, reference metadata and statistical metadata We can get the pafy object with the help of new method and with the help of allstreams attribute we can get all the streams available for the video, below is the command to get the pafy object for given video
video = pafy.new(url) streams = video.allstreams
The video url should exist on youtube as it get the information of those videos which are present on the youtube. YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform. In order to do this we use __repr__ method with the stream object of video
Syntax : stream.__repr__() Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns string
Below is the implementation
Python3
# importing pafyimport pafy # url of video url = "https://www.youtube.com / watch?v = vG2PNdI8axo" # getting videovideo = pafy.new(url) # getting all the available streamsstreams = video.allstreams# getting meta data of streamvalue = stream.__repr__()# printing the valueprint("Meta Data : " + str(value)) |
Output :
Meta Data : audio:webm@70k
Another example
Python3
# importing pafyimport pafy # url of video url = "https://www.youtube.com / watch?v = i6rhnSoK_gc" # getting videovideo = pafy.new(url) # getting all the available streamsstreams = video.allstreams# getting meta data of streamvalue = stream.__repr__()# printing the valueprint("Meta Data : " + str(value)) |
Output :
Meta Data : video:webm@256x144
