Pafy – Getting Author of the Video
Last Updated :
14 Mar, 2023
In this article we will see how we can get the author of the given youtube video in pafy. Pafy is a python library to download YouTube content and retrieve metadata. Pafy object is the object which contains all the information about the given video. Author is basically the uploader of the video on youtube. We can get the pafy object with the help of new method, below is the command to get the pafy object for given video
video = pafy.new(url)
The video url should exist on youtube as it get the information of those videos which are present on the youtube. YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform. In order to do this we use author attribute with the pafy object of video
Syntax : video.author Argument : It takes no argument Return : It returns string
Below is the implementation
Python3
import pafy
url = "https: / / www.youtube.com / watch?v = vG2PNdI8axo"
video = pafy.new(url)
value = video.author
print ("Author : " + value)
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Output
Author : GeeksforGeeks
Another example
Python3
import pafy
url = "https: / / www.youtube.com / watch?v = vVSKoLJmn8w&t = 13s "
video = pafy.new(url)
value = video.author
print ("Author : " + value)
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Output
Author : Triggered Insaan
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