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  1. Python API for YouTube - Download videos and retrieve metadata from YouTube.
  2. - Retreive metadata such as viewcount, duration, rating, author, thumbnail, keywords
  3. - Download video or audio at requested resolution / bitrate / format / filesize
  4. - Command line tool (ytdl) for downloading directly from the command line
  5. - Retrieve the URL to stream the video in a player such as vlc or mplayer
  6. - Works with age-restricted videos and non-embeddable videos
  7. - Small, standalone, single importable module file (pafy.py)
  8. - Select highest quality stream for download or streaming
  9. - Download video only (no audio) in m4v or webm format
  10. - Download audio only (no video) in ogg or m4a format
  11. - Retreive playlists and playlist metadata
  12. - Works with Python 2.6+ and 3.3+