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I want to play a video as podcast from YouTube in program without downloading the video from YouTube in Python

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.

Solution

  • 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.