Lassie is a Python library for retrieving basic content from websites.
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>>> import lassie >>> lassie.fetch('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ') { 'description': u'Music video by Rick Astley performing Never Gonna Give You Up. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 2,573,462 (C) 1987 PWL', 'videos': [{ 'src': u'http://www.youtube.com/v/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autohide=1&version=3', 'height': 480, 'type': u'application/x-shockwave-flash', 'width': 640 }, { 'src': u'https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ', 'height': 480, 'width': 640 }], 'title': u'Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up', 'url': u'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ', 'keywords': [u'Rick', u'Astley', u'Sony', u'BMG', u'Music', u'UK', u'Pop'], 'images': [{ 'src': u'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg?feature=og', 'type': u'og:image' }, { 'src': u'http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/dQw4w9WgXcQ/hqdefault.jpg', 'type': u'twitter:image' }, { 'src': u'http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon-vfldLzJxy.ico', 'type': u'favicon' }, { 'src': u'http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/favicon_32-vflWoMFGx.png', 'type': u'favicon' }], 'locale': u'en_US' }
Install Lassie via pip
$ pip install lassie
or, with easy_install
$ easy_install lassie
But, hey... that's up to you.
Documentation can be found here: https://lassie.readthedocs.org/