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py3-pafy-0.5.5p6

download YouTube content and retrieve metadata

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Description

Pafy is a Python library to download YouTube content and retrieve metadata. Features: * Retrieve metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail and 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 * Video only (no audio) download option (m4v or webm) * Audio only (no video) download option (ogg or m4a) * Retrieve playlists and playlist metadata

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Ports path
multimedia/py-pafy
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
multimedia, lang/python
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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