I downloaded information from a Youtube playlist with Python. For that I used the following code: import yt_dlp url = 'https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiJZcChPSpxLQHGf6K5CwGv7QIR55ea6' def get_video_info(url): ydl_opts = {"ignoreerrors": True} with yt_dlp.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl: info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False) return info info = get_video_info(url) print() print(info.get('entries')) It is much slower with Python (several minutes) than with the command line (a few seconds), and the json downloaded with the command line offers more information. This is the command line command I used: yt-dlp --flat-playlist --dump-single-json https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyiJZcChPSpxLQHGf6K5CwGv7QIR55ea6 | jq '.' Is there any command or option in Python to make it faster? My knowledge of Linux, computer science and programming is basic. The English is from a machine translation. I got the information I was looking for but it takes much longer in Python. Continue reading...
