In this article we will see how we can create a pafy object. 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. The video 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 headquartered in San Bruno, California.
In order to do this we use pafy.new method
Syntax : pafy.new(video)
Argument : It takes youtube video url or 11 character video id
Return : It returns pafy object
Below is the implementation
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # printing video object print(video) |
Output :
Title: DSA Self Paced Course |neveropen Author:neveropen ID: vG2PNdI8axo Duration: 00:01:06 Rating: 4.6894979 Views: 75431 Thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vG2PNdI8axo/default.jpg
Another example
# importing pafy import pafy # id of video i_d = "vG2PNdI8axo" # getting video through id video = pafy.new(url) print(video) |
Output :
Title: DSA Self Paced Course |neveropen Author:neveropen ID: vG2PNdI8axo Duration: 00:01:06 Rating: 4.6894979 Views: 75431 Thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vG2PNdI8axo/default.jpg
