Python library to download YouTube content and retrieve metadata
[Performance] - Fix download throttling for youtube-dl (@vn-ki) (#203) [Feature] - Support passing custom filenames to ytdl command-line tool (@inspectorG4dget) (#208) [Update] - Pass ydl_opts as keyword argument instead of positional argument (@ryin1) (#210) [Bugfix] - Fix crash when no view_count is returned (@dokime7) (#220) [Update] - Set shebang to force to Python 3 instead of system version of Python (@pirate486743186) (#224) [Update] - Support OL playlist urls (@lopsided98) (#226) [BugFix] - Prefer HTTPS by default otherwise some video URLs fail (@ritiek) (#235)
[Bugfix] Fix bug in views/likes/comments (@kiorky) (#171) [Update] Do not automatically fall back to buggy internal backend (can be overridden with an environmental variable) (@ids1024) [Update] Support UU playlist urls (@sedden) (#176) [Update] Support FL playlist urls (@zetasyanthis) (#177) [Feature] Support KB/MB/GB download progress (@ritiek) (#178) [Feature] Add API for channels (@vn-ki) (#196)
15 January 2017 Version 0.5.3.1
[Bugfix] - Fix issue when stdout.encoding is None (#165)
13 January 2017 Version 0.5.3
[Bugfix] - Handle occassional issue reading category (@regisb) [Bugfix] - Encode filename to system locale (#163) [Update] - Support m.youtube.com urls (@HouseK) (#159) [Update] - Support gaming.youtube.com urls (@Phosphorus-M) (#161) [Update] - Fix running under Boost.Python (#162)
18 August 2016 Version 0.5.2
[Bugfix] - Fix internal backend (#140) [Update] - Support liked video playlist (#149) [Update] - Add spaces to file name format (@ghost) (#145)
31 May 2016 Version 0.5.1
[Bugfix] - Fix python 2 import (#134) [Bugfix] - Fix two bugs in the internal backend (major bug remains unfixed) [Update] - Remove deprecated signature argument
28 February 2016 Version 0.5.0
[Feature] - Support both youtube-dl backend and internal backend (old 0.3.x branch). This makes youtube-dl an optional dependency, though it is more stable and thus recommended. There will be no more 0.3.x releases, as this eliminates the need for them.
To use the internal backend even if youtube-dl is installed, set the environmental variable PAFY_BACKEND to "internal".
[Bugfix] - Fix UnicodeDecodeError(krishnawhite) (#129) [Bugfix] - Fix quality property
1 January 2016 Version 0.4.3
[Feature] - get_playlist2() command with new interface and support for playlists longer than 200 videos (@ids1024) [Bugfix] - Fix ZeroDivisionError (@cpnielsen) (#125)
1 January 2016 Version 0.3.82
[Feature] - get_playlist2() command with new interface and support for playlists longer than 200 videos (@ids1024) [Bugfix] - Fix ZeroDivisionError (@cpnielsen) (#125)
20 December 2015 Version 0.3.80
[Bugfix] - Fix javascript extraction code, using file from youtube_dl