Wrting Python Script That Uses Youtube-Dl to Extract Just Only the Download Link?
I'm New to Python and I'm Writing a Python Script to Use Youtube-Dl to Extract Only Download Link, Exactly Like Link Given by the Console (Youtube-Dl --Get-Url...
I'm new to python and I'm writing a python script to use youtube-dl to extract only download link, exactly like link given by the console (youtube-dl --get-url url). I don't want to download the media, I just need the download-link from my script.
2 Answers
>>> from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL # $ pip install youtube-dl
>>> url = '
>>> ydl = YoutubeDL()
>>> r = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
[youtube] pvAsqPbz9Ro: Downloading webpage
[youtube] pvAsqPbz9Ro: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] pvAsqPbz9Ro: Extracting video information
[youtube] pvAsqPbz9Ro: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] pvAsqPbz9Ro: Downloading DASH manifest
>>> r['url']
u'
If there are several media formats then to get media url for the last format:
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(dict(forceurl=True)) as ydl:
r = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
media_url = r['formats'][-1]['url']
from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL
ydl = YoutubeDL()
url = '
r = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)
# if any link will do
urls = [format['url'] for format in r['formats']]
# if you want links with video and audio
urls = [f['url'] for f in r['formats'] if f['acodec'] != 'none' and f['vcodec'] != 'none']
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