pafy(1)

💖 pafy — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the pafy(1) page, from the General Commands Manual section. it's literally the glow-up doc for pafy, and we're about to go through it together. grab a strawberry 🍓, sit down, it's giving study session but make it slay.

✨ NAME ✨

pafy — Python API for YouTube 🎀

like. that's it. that's the whole identity. it's a Python API, and it's for YouTube. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so here's the tea, bestie: pafy lets you download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube. that's the vibe check, and it passes. 💅

this python library can do all of this, and no i'm not skipping any of it, every single one is iconic:

• retrieve metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail, 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 (yes, even those ones, we love a flexible queen)
• small, standalone 🦋
• 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 🎬

not me listing every single feature because the rule is KEEP EVERY DETAIL. and i would never do my bestie dirty like that. periodt. 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Create by Zlatan Todoric for usage in Debian Project but can be used by others as well. 🫶

like, originally made for Debian, but she's generous, she's for everybody. we love an inclusive icon. 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎉 this lil' doc came from the pafy manpage, dated April 14, 2014, and it belongs to pafy(1) — the one and only. mwah 💋 ✨