Monday, May 11, 2026
HomeLanguagesPafy – Getting Duration of the video

Pafy – Getting Duration of the video

In this article we will see how we can get the duration 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. Duration of the video is the time period of the video and is represented in the (HH:MM:SS) format.

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 duration attribute with the pafy object of video

Syntax : video.duration

Argument : It takes no argument

Return : It returns string

Below is the implementation




# importing pafy
import pafy 
    
# url of video 
url = "https://www.youtube.com / watch?v = vG2PNdI8axo"
    
# getting video
video = pafy.new(url) 
  
  
# getting duration of the video
value = video.duration
  
# printing the value
print("Duration : " + value)


Output :

Duration : 00:01:06

Another example




# importing pafy
import pafy 
    
# url of video 
url = "https://www.youtube.com / watch?v = i6rhnSoK_gc"
    
# getting video
video = pafy.new(url) 
  
# getting duration of the video
value = video.duration
  
# printing the value
print("Duration : " + value)


Output :

Duration : 00:11:42
Dominic
Dominichttp://wardslaus.com
infosec,malicious & dos attacks generator, boot rom exploit philanthropist , wild hacker , game developer,
RELATED ARTICLES

Most Popular

Dominic
32514 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Milvus
131 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Nango Kala
6892 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Nicole Veronica
12012 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Nokonwaba Nkukhwana
12107 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Shaida Kate Naidoo
7016 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Ted Musemwa
7262 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Thapelo Manthata
6975 POSTS0 COMMENTS
Umr Jansen
6963 POSTS0 COMMENTS