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pythonyoutube-dl
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Reputation: 505

youtube-dl: how to use the options and get the output to a variable

I have been trying to use youtube-dl using python instead of console. I am trying to get some information of a video such as available video formats, title, duration of the video etc. None of the options are working except listformats. So I tried different combinations of the options described in the documentation. Unfortunately nothing is working. I only see the list of video formats from listformats. Also, the output is only showing in the console but I need the output info in a variable such as video_details.

from __future__ import unicode_literals
import youtube_dl

ydl_opts = {
    '-v': True,
    'format': '-f',
    'print_json': True,
    'listformats': '--list-formats',
    'getfilename': '--get-filename',
    '--get-filename': True,
    '-e': True,
}

ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts)
video_details = ydl.download(['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc'])

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5729

Answers (1)

csabinho
csabinho

Reputation: 1609

You want to extract the information. Use the extract_info-method instead of download and it will work!

Upvotes: 1

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