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A simple YouTube API Client for Python

This is python-youtube, a client for the YouTube API written in Python. You can use it to access YouTube metadata in your applications and webapps. This implementation allows you to access the REST interface of the YouTube API.

Freshmeat.net project page

Documentation

• YouTube.com API Documentation
• Documentation for the youtube module

Download

• Current version: youtube.py (Updated: 2008-01-23)

ChangeLog

• 2007-06-05: Initial release
• 2007-07-09: Paging added (patch from Davide Muzzarelli)
• 2008-01-23: Reformat code to be pylint clean and PEP-8 conformant, fix small bugs

Example usage

c = youtube.YouTubeClient( 'your-dev-id')

for video in c.list_by_user( 'your-username'):
    v = c.get_details( video['id'])
    print video['id']
    print v['thumbnail_url']
    print v['title']
    print v['description']

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