vidscraper 1.0.2 on PyPI

Vidscraper is a library for retrieving information about videos from various sources – video feeds, APIs, page scrapes – combining it, and presenting it in a unified manner, all as efficiently as possible.

Vidscraper comes with built-in support for popular video sites like blip, vimeo, ustream, and youtube, as well support for generic RSS feeds with feedparser.

Quick example

>>> import vidscraper
>>> video = vidscraper.auto_scrape('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpu8jH1LE8')
>>> video.title
u"The Magic Roundabout - Ermintrude's Folly"
>>> video.description
u"Ermintrude's been at the poppies again, but it's Dougal who ends up high as a kite!"
>>> video.user
u'nickhirst999'
>>> video.guid
'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/PMpu8jH1LE8'

Command line

vidscraper also comes with a command line utility allowing you to get video metadata from the command line. The example above could look like this:

$ vidscraper video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpu8jH1LE8 \
  --fields=title,description,user,guid
Scraping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpu8jH1LE8...
{
  "description": "Ermintrude's been at the poppies again, but it's Dougal who ends up high as a kite!",
  "fields": [
    "title",
    "description",
    "user",
    "guid"
  ],
  "guid": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/PMpu8jH1LE8",
  "title": "The Magic Roundabout - Ermintrude's Folly",
  "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMpu8jH1LE8",
  "user": "nickhirst999"
}

Project links

code:	https://github.com/pculture/vidscraper/
docs:	http://vidscraper.readthedocs.org/
bugtracker:	http://bugzilla.pculture.org/
code:	https://github.com/pculture/vidscraper/
irc:	#vidscraper on irc.freenode.net
build status:

Requirements

Python 2.6+
BeautifulSoup 4.0.2+
feedparser 5.1.2+
python-requests 0.13.0+ (But less than 1.0.0!)

Optional

requests-oauth 0.4.1+ (for some APIs *cough* Vimeo searching *cough* which require authentication)
lxml 2.3.4+ (recommended for BeautifulSoup; assumed parser for test results.)
unittest2 0.5.1+ (for tests)
mock 0.8.0+ (for tests)
tox 1.4.2+ (for tests)