Get title from YouTube videos

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I want to extract the Title of YouTube's videos. How can I do this?

Thanks.

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19 Answers

Hello In python3 i founded 2 ways

1) without API KEY

import urllib.request
import json
import urllib
import pprint

#change to yours VideoID or change url inparams
VideoID = "SZj6rAYkYOg" 

params = {"format": "json", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s" % VideoID}
url = "https://www.youtube.com/oembed"
query_string = urllib.parse.urlencode(params)
url = url + "?" + query_string

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
    response_text = response.read()
    data = json.loads(response_text.decode())
    pprint.pprint(data)
    print(data['title'])

example results:

{'author_name': 'Google Developers',
 'author_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleDevelopers',
 'height': 270,
 'html': '<iframe width="480" height="270" '
         'src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SZj6rAYkYOg?feature=oembed" '
         'frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" '
         'allowfullscreen></iframe>',
 'provider_name': 'YouTube',
 'provider_url': 'https://www.youtube.com/',
 'thumbnail_height': 360,
 'thumbnail_url': 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SZj6rAYkYOg/hqdefault.jpg',
 'thumbnail_width': 480,
 'title': 'Google I/O 101:  Google APIs: Getting Started Quickly',
 'type': 'video',
 'version': '1.0',
 'width': 480}
Google I/O 101:  Google APIs: Getting Started Quickly

2) Using Google API - required APIKEY 

import urllib.request
import json
import urllib
import pprint

APIKEY = "YOUR_GOOGLE_APIKEY"
VideoID = "YOUR_VIDEO_ID"

params = {'id': VideoID, 'key': APIKEY,
          'fields': 'items(id,snippet(channelId,title,categoryId),statistics)',
          'part': 'snippet,statistics'}

url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos'

query_string = urllib.parse.urlencode(params)
url = url + "?" + query_string

with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
    response_text = response.read()
    data = json.loads(response_text.decode())
    pprint.pprint(data)
    print("TITLE: %s " % data['items'][0]['snippet']['title'])

example results:

{'items': [{'id': 'SZj6rAYkYOg',
            'snippet': {'categoryId': '28',
                        'channelId': 'UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw',
                        'title': 'Google I/O 101:  Google APIs: Getting '
                                 'Started Quickly'},
            'statistics': {'commentCount': '36',
                           'dislikeCount': '20',
                           'favoriteCount': '0',
                           'likeCount': '418',
                           'viewCount': '65783'}}]}
TITLE: Google I/O 101:  Google APIs: Getting Started Quickly
user_8063500

One way to do this would be to retrieve the video from youtube as shown here

Then extract the title out of the atom feed sent by youtube. A sample feed is shown here

user_1314630

I'll lay out the process as outlined by the YouTube API v3 documentation.

  1. Make a / login to the Google account that you want to be associated with your YouTube API use.

  2. Create a new project at https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials.

    • On the upper left, next to the Google APIs logo, go to Select a project and Create project +.
    • Wait a moment for the creation to finish.

  3. Make a new API key. You'll need it to access video info under v3.

    • If you're not already there, go to Credentials under the navigator on the left hand side, APIs and Services > Credentials.
    • Under the Credentials tab, click Create Credentials and select API key.
    • Copy the API key to your clipboard.
  4. Providing a video ID and your newly created API key, go to this link to see your work in action: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=<YOUR VIDEO ID HERE>&key=<YOUR API KEY HERE>%20&part=snippet (no angle brackets)

Example

The URL is, well, what URL you can go to through your browser to check it out. In return, you should get what's under API response:.

URL: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=7lCDEYXw3mM&key=YOUR_API_KEY
     &fields=items(id,snippet(channelId,title,categoryId),statistics)&part=snippet,statistics

Description: This example modifies the fields parameter from example 3
             so that in the API response, each video resource's snippet
             object only includes the channelId, title,
             and categoryId properties.

API response:

{
 "videos": [
  {
   "id": "7lCDEYXw3mM",
   "snippet": {
    "channelId": "UC_x5XG1OV2P6uZZ5FSM9Ttw",
    "title": "Google I/O 101: Q&A On Using Google APIs",
    "categoryId": "28"
   },
   "statistics": {
    "viewCount": "3057",
    "likeCount": "25",
    "dislikeCount": "0",
    "favoriteCount": "17",
    "commentCount": "12"
   }
  }
 ]
}

This gives you video info in the .json file format. If your project is to access this info through JavaScript, you may be going here next: How to get JSON from URL in Javascript?.

user_57088120

If you have youtube-dl, it's as simple as:

youtube-dl --get-title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
user_15649470

using python i got itimport pafy url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt47wvK6u0" video = pafy.new(url) print(video.title)

user_132273560

JavaX now ships with this function. Showing a video's thumbnail and title, for example, is a two-liner:

SS map = youtubeVideoInfo("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4If_vFZdFTk"));
showImage(map.get("title"), loadImage(map.get("thumbnail_url")));

Example

user_9474880

Similarly to Matej M, but more simply:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


def get_video_name(id: str):
    """
    Return the name of the video as it appears on YouTube, given the video id.
    """
    r = requests.get(f'https://youtube.com/watch?v={id}')
    r.raise_for_status()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, "lxml")
    return soup.title.string


if __name__ == '__main__':
    js = get_video_name("RJqimlFcJsM")
    print('\n\n')
    print(js)
user_40258740

I make a little bit of reinvention of excellent Porto's answer here, and wrote this snippet on Python:

import urllib, urllib.request, json

input = "C:\\urls.txt"
output = "C:\\tracks.csv"

urls=[line.strip() for line in open(input)]
for url in urls:
    ID = url.split('=')
    VideoID = ID[1]
    params = {"format": "json", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s" % VideoID}
    url = "https://www.youtube.com/oembed"
    query_string = urllib.parse.urlencode(params)
    url = url + "?" + query_string
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
        response_text = response.read()
        try:
            data = json.loads(response_text.decode())
        except ValueError as e:
            continue # skip faulty url
        if data is not None:
            author = data['author_name'].split(' - ')
            author = author[0].rstrip()
            f = open(output, "a", encoding='utf-8')
            print(author, ',', data['title'], sep="", file=f)

It eats a plain text file with Youtube URL list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Vfgdfgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RndfgdfN8
...

and returns a CSV file with Artist-Title pairs:

Beyonce,Pretty hurts
Justin Timberlake,Cry me a river
user_9114190

There are two modules that can help you which is pafy & youtube-dl. First install this module using pip. Pafy is using youtube-dl in the background to fetch the video information, you can also download videos using pafy and youtube-dl.

pip install youtube_dl
pip install pafy

Now you need to follow this code, I assume that you have the URL of any youtube video.

import pafy

def fetch_yt_video(link):
    video = pafy.new(link)
    print('Video Title is: ',video.title)

fetch_yt_video('https://youtu.be/CLUsplI4xMU')

The output is

Video Title is:  Make the perfect resume | For freshers & experienced | Step by step tutorial with free format
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