OpenCV capture online video for further processing without downloading the file with Python

Question

Given its link, I\'d like to capture an online video (say from YouTube) for further processing without downloading it on the disk. What I mean by this is th

Answer 1

Using pafy you can have a more elegant solution:

import cv2
import pafy

url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKpuX_yzdYs"
video = pafy.new(url)
best = video.getbest(preftype="mp4")

capture = cv2.VideoCapture()
capture.open(best.url)

success,image = capture.read()

while success:
    cv2.imshow('frame', image)
    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
        break

    success,image = capture.read()

cv2.destroyAllWindows()
capture.release()