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Get the title of a YoutTube video by it's video ID
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getVideoTitle_short.py
from urlparse import urlparse, parse_qs
import urllib2
videoid = "bMSTtWtzV-A"
title = parse_qs(urlparse("/?" + urllib2.urlopen("http://youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=" + videoid).read()).query)['title']
print title
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