Enter youtube-dl, the -t switch, the username and password for your account, and then the URL of the resource you wish to download which you can get from your browser's location bar, like this:
youtube-dl -t -u username -p password http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2S9rwyQkJE
The -t switch means use the title of the video we're downloading. Enter 'man youtube-dl' for more options. The application also prints the size of the video and the estimated time it will take, the ETA, to the terminal. Wait for it to finish and enjoy.
good post... as of one month ago, one could simply open firefox, open tamper data, go to the you tube video in question, then within tamper data look for the actual flv/mp4 file/url. still within tamper data, highlight the flv/mp4 url, then hit 'open in browser'.. the browser would then just download the video file to local disk.
ReplyDeletethese days it looks like you tube sends videos in chunks.. not via byte-range requests but 1.7M chunks via an index file of sorts..... maybe they moved to html5 distribution instead of their usual flash progressive download streaming.. still looking..
verified using wireshark..
I keep getting "ERROR: unable to download video" whenever I try to download using this. It's odd considering the fact that this used to work.
ReplyDeleteI've used a few methods in FireFox and Icecat. I wasn't aware that there was a "VideoDownloader" (or is it VideoDownloadHelper?) for Firefox on Linux though.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, FlashGot has always worked well for me (well, not always, but usually). I have it configured to use curl.
But the most convenient of the tools using this approach are Greasemonkey with scripts like this: https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62634
That seems to be the fastest.
The problems I see with youtube-dl are twofold:
1.) Your example used HTTP, not SSL/TLS (https://), yet I'm supposed to send my uid/pwd over the wire in clear text?
2.) Why must I provide my uid/pwd credentials? Won't it work w/o that?
Thanks for bringing this to my attention though. It does seem to be a kewl tewl :)
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Bradley D. Thornton
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