Pafy (Python API for YouTube content) Python API for YouTube - Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube. - 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. - Retreive playlists and playlist metadata. - Works with Python 2.6+ and 3.3+. Optional dependency: ffmpeg