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As I said on the title, I want to play a video as podcast from YouTube in program without downloading the video from YouTube in Python. I did a detailed search on the internet on how to do it but I could find nothing about it.

Deezwend
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  • Seems related to [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71376165/how-to-watch-video-without-downloading-like-mpv-using-yt-dl-python). – Benjamin Loison Aug 20 '22 at 18:37
  • No. I want to play the video I have sent to program as podcast. There should not be video. Just its audio. – Deezwend Aug 20 '22 at 19:31

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Thanks to YouTube-DL we can retrieve the YouTube video audio link then we can provide it to the VLC media player to play it without downloading as a file the audio.

import youtube_dl, vlc

youtube_dl_options = {
    'quiet': True,
    'format': 'bestaudio',
}

with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL() as yt_dl:
    info = yt_dl.extract_info(YOUR_VIDEO_ID, download=False)
    audio_url = info['formats'][0]['url']
    player = vlc.MediaPlayer(audio_url)
    player.play()

BaW_jenozKc is an example of video id.

Benjamin Loison
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  • I installed the 'vlc' library. But I am getting an error: FileNotFoundError: Could not find module 'C:\Users\bugra\Documents\GitHub\x\libvlc.dll' (or one of its dependencies). Try using the full path with constructor syntax. – Deezwend Aug 20 '22 at 19:49
  • Please consider the answers to [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/q/59014318/7123660) then. – Benjamin Loison Aug 20 '22 at 19:56
  • Sir, really thank you a lot. I was searching for how to do this for 8 hours. I was about to go crazy. – Deezwend Aug 20 '22 at 20:13