In this article we will see how we can get the username of the given youtube video’s uploader 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. Username is the handler unique name used by the person to upload the given 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 username attribute with the pafy object of video
Syntax : video.username
Argument : It takes no argument
Return : It returns string
Below is the implementation
# importing pafy import pafy
# url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url)
# getting username of the video's uploader value = video.username
# printing the value print("Username : " + value)
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Output :
Username : UC0RhatS1pyxInC00YKjjBqQ
Another example
# importing pafy import pafy
# url of video # getting video video = pafy.new(url)
# getting username of the video's uploader value = video.username
# printing the value print("Username : " + value)
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Output :
Username : tanmay316