["python","youtube-dl"]
How to use youtube-dl from a python program?

I would like to access the result of the following shell command, youtube-dl -g "www.youtube.com/..." to print its output direct url to a file, from within a python program. This is what I have tried: import youtube-dl fromurl="www.youtube.com/..." geturl=youtube-dl.magiclyextracturlfromurl(fromurl) Is that possible? I tried to understand the mechanism in the source but got lost: youtube_dl/__init__.py, youtube_dl/youtube_DL.py, info_extractors ...
It's not difficult and actually documented: import youtube_dl ydl = youtube_dl.YoutubeDL({'outtmpl': '%(id)s.%(ext)s'}) with ydl: result = ydl.extract_info( 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc', download=False # We just want to extract the info ) if 'entries' in result: # Can be a playlist or a list of videos video = result['entries'][0] else: # Just a video video = result print(video) video_url = video['url'] print(video_url)