Get Meta Data And Mrl From Youtube, Soundcloud, And Other Platforms

Currently I am using LibVLC to get the metadata and MRL of online videos and music. But this is a lot of stupid overhead just to get this information. ... from vlc import Instance

Solution 1:

After some testing, I decided to use youtube_dl, because it is very easy to use and supports a lot of platforms: http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

Here is my example code:

#!/usr/bin/env python3import youtube_dl as ydl

url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qEzh3wKVJc"with ydl.YoutubeDL(
    {
        "forcejson": True,
        "noplaylist": True,
        "format": "bestaudio"
    }
) as parser:
    meta = parser.extract_info(
        url,
        download=False
    )

print(meta['thumbnail'])
print(meta['title'])
print(meta['url'])