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 ...

python youtube-dl
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