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Python API for YouTube - Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube.
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- Retreive metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail, keywords
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- Download video or audio at requested resolution / bitrate / format / filesize
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- Command line tool (ytdl) for downloading directly from the command line
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- Retrieve the URL to stream the video in a player such as vlc or mplayer
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- Works with age-restricted videos and non-embeddable videos
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- Small, standalone, single importable module file (pafy.py)
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- Select highest quality stream for download or streaming
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- Download audio only (no video) in ogg or m4a format
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- Download video only (no audio) in m4v format
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- Retreive playlists and playlist metadata
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- Works with Python 2.6+ and 3.3+
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Optional dependency: ffmpeg
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