How to use youtube-dl from a python program?
python, youtube-dl
Solution
It's not difficult and actually documented:
import youtube_dl
ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({'outtmpl': '%(id)s.%(ext)s'})
with ydl:
result = ydl.extract_info(
'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc',
download=False # We just want to extract the info
)
if 'entries' in result:
# Can be a playlist or a list of videos
video = result['entries'][0]
else:
# Just a video
video = result
print(video)
video_url = video['url']
print(video_url)
Problem
I would like to access the result of the following shell command, ``` youtube-dl -g "www.youtube.com/..." ``` to print its output `direct url` to a file, from within a python program. This is what I have tried: ``` import youtube-dl fromurl="www.youtube.com/..." geturl=youtube-dl.magiclyextracturlfromurl(fromurl) ``` Is that possible? I tried to understand the mechanism in the source but got lost: `youtube_dl/__init__.py`, `youtube_dl/youtube_DL.py`, `info_extractors` ...