In this article we will see how we can get meta data 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. 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, 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 __repr__ method with the pafy object of video
Syntax : video.__repr__()
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns string
Below is the implementation
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # getting meta data of video value = video.__repr__() # printing the value print("Meta Data : " + value) |
Output :
Meta Data : Title: DSA Self Paced Course |neveropen Author:neveropen ID: vG2PNdI8axo Duration: 00:01:06 Rating: 4.6923075 Views: 75562 Thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vG2PNdI8axo/default.jpg
Another example
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # getting meta data of video value = video.__repr__() # printing the value print("Meta Data : " + value) |
Output :
Meta Data : Title: COVID CASE IN OUR BUILDING - VLOG 32 Author: Tanmay Bhat ID: i6rhnSoK_gc Duration: 00:11:42 Rating: 4.9447651 Views: 1128643 Thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/i6rhnSoK_gc/default.jpg
