While instantiating the object of the FrameExtractor class, we need to provide the path to the video we want to work with. Running that line of code returns the following list of media formats: We can chain it with the all method to see all the available streams. The next step is to inspect the available streams using the streams method.

length - length of the video in seconds.

Some of the interesting methods we can use are: Using this object, we can download the video/audio, and inspect some of the properties of the video itself. The first step is to create an instance of the YouTube class using the link to the video we want to download. I will use a classic video game from GameBoy - Mega Man: Dr.

In this part, I present how to download a YouTube video using Python. All the functionalities of the original library are preserved and we actually still use import pytube to import the library (even though we install it using pip install pytube3).īelow I present the list of all the imports required for this article: from pytube import YouTube # misc import os import shutil import math import datetime # plots import matplotlib.pyplot as plt %matplotlib inline # image operation import cv2 Downloading a video That is why in this article I suggest using pytube3, which is a fork of the original pytube library and has the error fixed (it only works with Python 3). Also, the library is not actively maintained anymore. However, after some changes introduced by YouTube, it is not really usable anymore - any attempt to download videos results in KeyError: ‘url_encoded_fmt_stream_map’. In my previous article, I used a library called pytube to download the videos. We can use such images for various machine learning projects. After over a year, I wanted to revisit one aspect of the process - downloading videos (and potentially audio) from YouTube videos and extracting frames as images.

In one of my first articles on Medium, I showed how to train a Convolutional Neural Network to classify images coming from old GameBoy games - Mario and Wario. And how to use a custom class to extract frames as images

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