On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:06:00AM +0000, Matthew Szudzik wrote: > 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.
perhaps, but clicking on buttons and seeing the video in the browser (and having seeking and fullscreen controls, as well as choices for which version of the video in there as well) is pretty convenient. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
