Get the YouTube video title by its url using python

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I want to get the title of a youtube video by url. I have been searching for several days but I did not get the result

I have been searching for several days but I did not get the result

This doesn't seem possible unless you extract the video's id from the URL and make a call to the API — StonedTensor, Nov 18 '22 at 13:00
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23727943/how-to-get-information-from-youtube-dl-in-python — Thierry Lathuille, Nov 18 '22 at 13:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '22 at 13:19

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By using requests and Beautiful Soup libraries you can achieve that:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

r = requests.get("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sg-A-eS6Ig&list=RDBAkqJT_sMKQ&index=5")
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text)

link = soup.find_all(name="title")[0]
title = str(link)
title = title.replace("<title>","")
title = title.replace("</title>","")

print(title)

answered Nov 18 '22 at 13:19

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`title = link.text` is a much cleaner way to get the title – Thierry Lathuille Nov 18 '22 at 18:13
``soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, features="lxml")`` – PlutoSenthil May 13 '23 at 19:27

Get the YouTube video title by its url using python

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