I am working with pytube to write an automated scripts which helps me download a YouTube video. I wanted to get the itag number of the highest resolution video.
The method get_highest_resolution() returns the stream of the highest resolution video:
highest_resolution_stream = yt_obj.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').get_highest_resolution()
Its output looks like this:
<Stream: itag="18" mime_type="video/mp4" res="360p" fps="25fps" vcodec="avc1.42001E" acodec="mp4a.40.2" progressive="True" type="video">
Now I want to extract the value of itag from this pytube stream.
To extract itag, we just need to do use <stream>.itag:
highest_resolution_stream = yt_obj.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension='mp4').get_highest_resolution()
my_itag = highest_resolution_stream.itag