How to edit Video metadata while in Binary State using Python

Question

I want to download a Video file from internet using requests library and before saving that endit metadata of the video.

import requests

url = 'https://www.sample-videos.com/video123/mp4/720/big_buck_bunny_720p_5mb.mp4'

r = requests.get(url, stream=True)

with open('video.mp4', 'wb') as file:
     file.write(r.content)

I just want to change the metadata to video before saving the file.

Answer 1

I don't think that's possible. My approach would be to first download the video and then consider using a library such as tagpy or mutagen.

I would recommend mutagen since I find that it has a good documentation

See here on installation steps for mutagen

Example code using mutagen

>>> import mutagen
>>> mutagen.File("11. The Way It Is.ogg")
{'album': [u'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned'],
 'title': [u'The Way It Is'], 'artist': [u'The Prodigy'],
 'tracktotal': [u'12'], 'albumartist': [u'The Prodigy'],'date': [u'2004'],
 'tracknumber': [u'11'],
>>> _.info.pprint()
u'Ogg Vorbis, 346.43 seconds, 499821 bps'
>>>

And then to change the title, you simply access the dictionary key and change the value of it

from mutagen.flac import FLAC

audio = FLAC("example.flac")
audio["title"] = u"An example"
audio.pprint()
audio.save()