Yes, I've been lazy and negligent about updating this blog, but then, that's the story of personal blogs worldwide.
Anyway, this one's gonna be short and quick. I just found out a Python-based script youtube-dl to download youtube (and other supported) videos via command line.
You can get it here:
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
The syntax is pretty simple, once you have added executable permissions to the script (requires Python 2.5 or newer):
./youtube-dl <Web URL here>
Or you can check your official repositories for a package called 'youtube-dl'.
There're a plenty of tools/addons/websites available online, and most of my batchmates have their own versions of youtube downloaders to their credit, so why this post?
1. Apparently, with browser/OS/whatever updates, the older method of copying the streamed video from the file descriptors (/proc/*/fd/*) doesn't work.
2. This thing does not use the 'saving streamed content' concept. It *somehow* obtains a download link by itself. And it's written purely in Python. Understanding how it works could help you in clearing a lot of concepts. (Fair warning though: it's a 4500 line code, and most of the modules used are unheard of, to me. This one's not for the weak at heart.)
3. If you just wanted a method to get it done, and are least interested about the inner workings of such utilities, I'm sorry - you're looking at the wrong blog.
Anyway, this one's gonna be short and quick. I just found out a Python-based script youtube-dl to download youtube (and other supported) videos via command line.
You can get it here:
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
The syntax is pretty simple, once you have added executable permissions to the script (requires Python 2.5 or newer):
./youtube-dl <Web URL here>
Or you can check your official repositories for a package called 'youtube-dl'.
There're a plenty of tools/addons/websites available online, and most of my batchmates have their own versions of youtube downloaders to their credit, so why this post?
1. Apparently, with browser/OS/whatever updates, the older method of copying the streamed video from the file descriptors (/proc/*/fd/*) doesn't work.
2. This thing does not use the 'saving streamed content' concept. It *somehow* obtains a download link by itself. And it's written purely in Python. Understanding how it works could help you in clearing a lot of concepts. (Fair warning though: it's a 4500 line code, and most of the modules used are unheard of, to me. This one's not for the weak at heart.)
3. If you just wanted a method to get it done, and are least interested about the inner workings of such utilities, I'm sorry - you're looking at the wrong blog.
