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+Python API for YouTube - Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube.
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+- Retreive metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail, etc
+- 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