In this article we will see how we can get best audio stream of the given youtube video 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. Best audio stream is basically a audio stream which is available and in highest resolution. This is best stream available for the audio.
We can get the pafy object with the help of new method, below is the command to get the pafy object for given video
video = pafy.new(url)
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 getbestaudio method with the pafy object of video
Syntax : video.getbestaudio()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns YtdlStream object
Below is the implementation
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # getting best audio stream of video value = video.getbestaudio() # printing the value print("Best Audio Stream : " + str(value)) |
Output :
Best Audio Stream : audio:webm@160k
Another example
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # getting best audio stream of video value = video.getbestaudio() # printing the value print("Best Audio Stream : " + str(value)) |
Output :
Best Audio Stream : audio:webm@160k
