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Get an OpenCV video capture from an YouTube video URL

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cap_from_youtube

Get an OpenCV video capture from an YouTube video URL

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Why

  • pafy is widely used to get the video URL from a YouTube video URL, but since it uses youtube-dl which has not been updated recently, it suffers from some issues (dislike_count not found...).
  • This repository is a simplified version of what pafy does, by just getting the url of the video and creating an OpenCV video capture from it.
  • It uses YT-DLP (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp), which is a fork of youtube-dl that is updated frequently.

Requirement

  • YT-DLP
  • OpenCV
  • NumPy

Installation

  • The easiest way is to install it with pip:
pip install cap_from_youtube
  • You can also install it from GitHub:
pip install git+https://github.com/ibaiGorordo/cap_from_youtube

Usage

cap_from_youtube()

  • cap_from_youtube() is the main function to obtain a video capture from a YouTube video URL.
  • It requires the video URL as input and returns a cv2.VideoCapture object.
  • By default, it returns the video with the highest resolution available.
  • You can specify the resolution you want to get with the resolution parameter.
    • Available resolutions: '144p', '240p', '360p', '480p', '720p', '720p60', '1080p', '1080p60', 'best'
  • Example:
from datetime import timedelta
import cv2
from cap_from_youtube import cap_from_youtube

youtube_url = 'https://youtu.be/LXb3EKWsInQ'
start_time = timedelta(seconds=5)
cap = cap_from_youtube(youtube_url, 'best', start=start_time)

cv2.namedWindow('video', cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)
while True:
    ret, frame = cap.read()
    if not ret:
        break
    cv2.imshow('video', frame)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

list_video_streams()

  • You can also use the list_video_streams() function to get the list of available video streams.
  • It requires the video URL as input and returns two values:
    • streams: a list of VideoStream with the information of the available video streams.
    • resolutions: a NumPy array with the available resolutions.
  • Example:
from cap_from_youtube import list_video_streams

youtube_url = 'https://youtu.be/LXb3EKWsInQ'
streams, resolutions = list_video_streams(youtube_url)

for stream in streams:
    print(stream)

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