Ed, curl is standard Mac OS X and works; you do not need wget/fink. You do have to find out what the URL is, and it's not what I originally assumed. You can find the URL by using the Activity window in Safari>Window>Activity. If you look at that window while Safari plays the youtube, you can will recognize the URL as the one that has a download size that changes. Make sure that the triangle on the left in the Activity window points down, otherwise information remains hidden.
Once you have the URL, you do "curl 'URL' > 'output file'" -- text in double quotes is a command; what is in single quotes has to be replaced by the actual URL and by whatever you choose to call your output file. Finally, you need something that will play back your download. I've used VLC. (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/; I have it in Applications but do not remember the details of getting it there. Must have been simple. If VLC is what you choose to use, give the 'output file' a name that ends in .vlc. Finally, the command "open 'output file" will play the file, unless VLC fails to recognize it -- I've tried two successfully. Clicking will work too, of course, if that's your thing, but the extension has to be correct or else you will have to select an application by hand. Peter. On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Ed Durbrow wrote: > I tried that in Terminal and it didn't work. > > According to Robert Claire >> It doesn't work because the program (command) wget doesn't come with OS X. >> You don't have it (always a good reason for not working.) >> >> It's a piece of GNU software that you have to download and install. I don't >> know if there is an easy way to get just that command. The traditional way >> to get open source UNIX stuff is with something called "fink". >> (Google-time). It's mildly involved because it keeps a database of open >> source packages, what depends on what, etc. >> >> It might be easier to e-mail Peter and ask him to email you the program and >> which folder to put it in. (I don't have it and I don't have any time tight >> now to go and get it. > > On Feb 25, 2007, at 12:55 AM, Peter Nightingale wrote: > >> G., >> >> If you run MacOs X, open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and execute >> the command: >> >> wget http://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=dRHutMf7_bU >> >> You have to put a backslash in front of the question mark because a >> question mark has different meaning otherwise. >> >> wget "http://www.youtube.com/watch\?v=dRHutMf7_bU"; >> will do the trick too. >> >> Peter. >> >> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, G.R. Crona wrote: >> >>> >>> [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHutMf7_bU >>> >>> Anyone knows how one could save the youtube clips? >>> >>> G. >>> >>> References >>> >>> 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRHutMf7_bU >>> >>> >>> To get on or off this list see list information at >>> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>> >> >> the next auto-quote is: >> Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. >> (Dwight D. Eisenhower) >> /\/\ >> Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 >> Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 >> University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 >> >> > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > the next auto-quote is: War ... seems a mere madness, a collective insanity. (Bertrand Russell) /\/\ Peter Nightingale Telephone (401) 874-5882 Department of Physics, East Hall Fax (401) 874-2380 University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881
