Get Video Information From A List Of Playlist With Youtube-dl

I'm tryng to get some informations from a list of playlists in youtube with youtube-dl. I've written this code but what it takes is not the video's informations but the playlist in

Solution 1:

The variable you call video actually holds the playlist information, not the video information. You can find a list of the individual video information in the playlist's entries attribute.

See below for a possible fix. I renamed your video variable to playlist and took the freedom to rewrite it a bit and add output:

import textwrap
import youtube_dl

playlists = [
    "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRQGRBgN_EnrPrgmMGvrouKn7VlGGCx8m"
]

for playlist in playlists:

    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({"ignoreerrors": True, "quiet": True}) as ydl:
        playlist_dict = ydl.extract_info(playlist, download=False)

    # Pretty-printing the video information (optional)
    for video in playlist_dict["entries"]:
        print("\n" + "*" * 60 + "\n")

        if not video:
            print("ERROR: Unable to get info. Continuing...")
            continue

        for prop in ["thumbnail", "id", "title", "description", "duration"]:
            print(prop + "\n" +
                textwrap.indent(str(video.get(prop)), "    | ", lambda _: True)
            )

Solution 2:

run the command

youtube-dl --print-json https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=<playlist_id> > example.json

you can also uses the --get for retriving specific items for example

youtube-dl --get-title https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=<playlist_id> > example.txt