DESCRIPTION

Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube. This python library can retrieve 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, 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.

AUTHOR

Create by Zlatan Todoric for usage in Debian Project but can be used by others as well.