A python function utilising `ffprobe` to find any metadata related to a video file. Examples of what it can find include bitrate, fps, codec details, duration and many more. This gist returns the video height and width as an example.

video-metada-finder.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python3
import subprocess
import shlex
import json
import datetime


# function to find the resolution of the input video file
def findVideoMetada(pathToInputVideo):
    cmd = "ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_streams"
    args = shlex.split(cmd)
    args.append(pathToInputVideo)
    # run the ffprobe process, decode stdout into utf-8 & convert to JSON
    ffprobeOutput = subprocess.check_output(args).decode('utf-8')
    ffprobeOutput = json.loads(ffprobeOutput)

    # prints all the metadata available:
    import pprint
    pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=2)
    pp.pprint(ffprobeOutput['streams'][0])

    # for example, find height, widthand duration
    width = int(ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['width'])
    height = int(ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['height'])
    duration_ = float(ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['duration'])

    # change duration into a readable format
    duration = str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=duration_))

    # to find fps, you need to account for different situations where some metadata could be missing
    try:
        nb_frames = int(ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['nb_frames'])
        fps = nb_frames/duration_
    except:
        try: 
            avg_frame_rate = ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['avg_frame_rate']
            tmp = avg_frame_rate.split('/')
        except:
            r_frame_rate = ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['r_frame_rate']
            tmp = r_frame_rate.split('/')
        fps = float(tmp[0])/float(tmp[1])

    print(width, height, duration, fps)
    return width, height, duration, fps