In this article we will see how we can get the pafy object from playlist items 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. A playlist in YouTube is a list, or group, of videos that plays in order, one video after the other. When one video finishes playing, the next starts automatically so you don’t have to click or search to start playing a new video. Playlist items are individual videos total items are the total videos present in the playlist. With pafy object we can download the selected video get the quality of videos.
We can get the playlist from youtube in pafy with the help of get_playlist method, below is the command given to do this
pafy.get_playlist(url)
The playlist 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.
Steps to get the playlist ID
1. Import the pafy module
2. Get the playlist with the help of URL of playlist
3. Return play list work as dictionary so use ‘items’ as key with the return playlist
4. Store the result in variable and from the items select the single item
5. With the single item use ‘pafy’ key with it
6. Store the result and print the result
Below is the implementation
# importing pafy import pafy # url of playlist # getting playlist playlist = pafy.get_playlist(url) # getting playlist items items = playlist["items"] # selecting single item item = items[1] # getting pafy object i_pafy = item['pafy'] # printing pafy object print(i_pafy) |
Output :
Pafy object: AfxHGNRtFac [Write a program to print all permutations of ..]
Another example
# importing pafy import pafy # url of playlist # getting playlist playlist = pafy.get_playlist(url) # selecting single item item = items[1] # getting pafy object i_pafy = item['pafy'] # printing pafy object print(i_pafy) |
Output :
Pafy object: WdgAKCnWnwA [Merge Overlapping Intervals |neveropen..]
