On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:12:44PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > And yt or youtube-dl from ports. Also, the greasmonkey scripts or > > whatever for firefox work great for youtube, vimeo and a few others. > > yeah, greasemonkey + "youtube without flash auto" is *way* better > than swfdec or gnash for watching/downloading videos. > > http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771
These prepackaged choices (yt, youtube-dl, and the greasemonkey script) are all a little too bloated for my taste. Did you notice that the youtube-dl script http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/src/tip/youtube-dl is over 2000 lines long! That's longer than the Surf web browser (which is under 1000 lines). http://hg.suckless.org/surf/file/e83fbd17d63a/surf.c I would rather maintain my own 4 line shell script for downloading youtube videos: sed -n 's/[^v]*v.\([^&'\'']*\).*/curl '\''http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ge'\ 't_video_info?video_id=\1'\'' ; echo/p' | sh | sed -n 's/.*&video_id=\'\ '([^&'\'']*\).*&token=\([^%'\'']*\).*/curl -L -o '\''\1.mp4'\'' '\''ht'\ 'tp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/get_video?video_id=\1\&t=\2=\&fmt=18'\''/p' | sh The script takes URLs for youtube videos as standard input (one per line), and downloads the mp4 files. And if it doesn't do exactly what I need, then I customize it. Understanding youtube's API is easier than depending on somebody else's code, in my opinion.
