In this article we will see how we can get the rating 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. Rating is basically rating that ranges from 0 to 5 it depends on the response of the viewers on the video.
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 rating attribute with the pafy object of video
Syntax : video.rating
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns float
Below is the implementation
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # getting rating of the video value = video.rating # printing the value print("Rating : " + str(value)) |
Output :
Rating : 4.6894979
Another example
# importing pafy import pafy # url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url) # getting rating of the video value = video.rating # printing the value print("Rating : " + str(value)) |
Output :
Rating : 4.9455032
