Bug#738796: ITP: pafy -- Python API for YouTube - Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Zlatan Todoric <zlatan.todoric@gmail.com>
* Package name : pafy
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Darren <np1nagev@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/np1/pafy
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Python API for YouTube - Download videos and retrieve
metadata from YouTube
Features:
- Retreive metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail,
keywords
- Download video or audio at requested resolution / bitrate / format /
filesize
- Command line tool (ytdl) for downloading directly from the command line
- Retrieve the URL to stream the video in a player such as vlc or mplayer
- Works with age-restricted videos and non-embeddable videos
- Small, standalone, single importable module file (pafy.py)
- Select highest quality stream for download or streaming
- Download audio only (no video) in ogg or m4a format
- Download video only (no audio) in m4v format
- Works with Python 2.7 and 3.x
- No dependencies
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