Source code for woob.tools.capabilities.video.ytdl
# Copyright(C) 2017 Vincent A
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from shutil import which
from datetime import timedelta
import subprocess
from woob.capabilities.base import NotAvailable
from woob.capabilities.image import Thumbnail
from woob.capabilities.video import BaseVideo
from woob.tools.date import parse_date
from woob.tools.json import json
__all__ = ('video_info',)
[docs]def video_info(url):
"""Fetch info about a video using youtube-dl
:param url: URL of the web page containing the video
:rtype: :class:`woob.capabilities.video.Video`
"""
ytdl = which('yt-dlp') or which('youtube-dl')
if ytdl is None:
raise Exception('Please install youtube-dl')
try:
j = json.loads(subprocess.check_output([ytdl, '-J', url]))
except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
return None
v = BaseVideo(id=url)
v.title = str(j.get('title')) if j.get('title') else NotAvailable
v.ext = str(j.get('ext')) if j.get('ext') else NotAvailable
v.description = str(j.get('description')) if j.get('description') else NotAvailable
v.url = str(j['url'])
v.duration = timedelta(seconds=j.get('duration')) if j.get('duration') else NotAvailable
v.author = str(j.get('uploader')) if j.get('uploader') else NotAvailable
v.rating = j.get('average_rating') or NotAvailable
if j.get('thumbnail'):
v.thumbnail = Thumbnail(str(j['thumbnail']))
d = j.get('upload_date', j.get('release_date'))
if d:
v.date = parse_date(d)
return v