Lassie
Lassie is a Python library for retrieving basic content from websites.
Usage
>>> 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
Install Lassie via pip
$ pip install lassie
or, with easy_install
$ easy_install lassie
But, hey... that's up to you.
Documentation
Documentation can be found here: https://lassie.readthedocs.org/