Pafy - Getting Media Type of Stream

Pafy - Getting Media Type of Stream

Pafy is a Python library that can interface with YouTube content and metadata. It can be used to fetch details about YouTube videos, such as video formats, resolution, bitrate, etc.

If you wish to determine the media type of a stream using Pafy, you can use the mediatype attribute of the stream object. The mediatype attribute will return either 'video' or 'audio', indicating the type of content that the stream contains.

Here's a quick example:

import pafy # Get video details url = "YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL_HERE" video = pafy.new(url) # Get all available streams for the video streams = video.allstreams # Loop through each stream and print its media type for stream in streams: print(f"Stream resolution/format: {stream.resolution or stream.bitrate}, Media Type: {stream.mediatype}")

In this code:

  • Replace YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDEO_URL_HERE with the actual URL of a YouTube video.
  • The allstreams attribute gives you a list of all available streams for the video.
  • The resolution attribute is available for video streams and returns the resolution (e.g., "1920x1080").
  • The bitrate attribute is available for audio streams and returns the bitrate (e.g., "160k").
  • The mediatype attribute tells you whether the stream is 'video' or 'audio'.

This way, you can easily determine the media type of each stream associated with a YouTube video using Pafy.

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