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In this article we will see how we can get the pafy object from playlist items 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. A playlist in YouTube is a list, or group, of videos that plays in order, one video after the other. When one video finishes playing, the next starts automatically so you don’t have to click or search to start playing a new video. Playlist items are individual videos total items are the total videos present in the playlist. With pafy object we can download the selected video get the quality of videos.

We can get the playlist from youtube in pafy with the help of get_playlist method, below is the command given to do this

 pafy.get_playlist(url)

The playlist 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.

Steps to get the playlist ID
1. Import the pafy module
2. Get the playlist with the help of URL of playlist
3. Return play list work as dictionary so use ‘items’ as key with the return playlist
4. Store the result in variable and from the items select the single item
5. With the single item use ‘pafy’ key with it
6. Store the result and print the result

Below is the implementation




# importing pafy
import pafy 
    
# url of playlist
url = "https://www.youtube.com / playlist?list = PLqM7alHXFySGqCvcwfqqMrteqWukz9ZoE"
  
# getting playlist
playlist = pafy.get_playlist(url)
  
# getting playlist items
items = playlist["items"]
  
# selecting single item
item = items[1]
  
# getting pafy object
i_pafy = item['pafy']
      
# printing pafy object
print(i_pafy) 


Output :

Pafy object: AfxHGNRtFac [Write a program to print all permutations of ..]

Another example




# importing pafy
import pafy 
    
# url of playlist
url = "https://www.youtube.com / playlist?list = PLqM7alHXFySE71A2bQdYp37vYr0aReknt"
    
# getting playlist
playlist = pafy.get_playlist(url)
  
# selecting single item
item = items[1]
  
# getting pafy object
i_pafy = item['pafy']
      
# printing pafy object
print(i_pafy)


Output :

Pafy object: WdgAKCnWnwA [Merge Overlapping Intervals | GeeksforGeeks..]


Last Updated : 20 Jul, 2020
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