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 … Read more
Updating youtube-dl helped me. Depending on the way you installed it, here are the commands: youtube-dl –update (self-update) pip install -U youtube-dl (via python) brew upgrade youtube-dl (macOS + homebrew) choco upgrade youtube-dl (Windows + Chocolatey)
In a shell, & is a special character, advising the shell to start everything up to the & as a process in the background. To avoid this behavior, you can put the URL in quotes. See the youtube-dl FAQ for more information. Also beware of -citk. With the exception of -i, these options make little … Read more
I just came up with a general solution, which should work on most websites. I tried this on Chrome only, but this method should work with any other browser, though, as Dev Tools are pretty much the same in them all. Steps: Open the browser’s Dev Tools (usually F12, or Ctrl-Shift-I, or right-click and then … Read more