Youtube-dl - Download videos from Youtube
Posted by admin on August 13th, 2008
youtube-dl is a small free opensource command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. youtube-dl is a platform independent tool that works on UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. The latest version of Youtube-dl is 2008.08.09 and requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later. After all, it’s a simple and short program. All said, you might want to check on Copyright issues and details related.
Install Youtube-dl
Packmand hosts the 1-click install Yast metapackage for the latest version of youtube-dl. This should work in openSUSE 11.0, openSUSE 10.3, openSUSE 10.2, SuSE 10.1 & SuSE 10.0
Click 
to download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to install youtube-dl and required dependency packages.
Download Youtube videos
Once installed, the youtube-dl executable is installed under /usr/bin/
opensuse11:~ # which youtube-dl
/usr/bin/youtube-dl
To download a Video from Youtube simply run the utility with the URL to the video. Here is an example, I’m downloading a video which compares Windows and openSUSE. The Youtube video is here
opensuse11:~ # youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/v/r0fJIflmILY&hl=en&fs=1
[1] 9482
[2] 9483
[2]+ Done hl=en
opensuse11:~ # [youtube] r0fJIflmILY: Downloading video webpage
[youtube] r0fJIflmILY: Extracting video information
[youtube] r0fJIflmILY: URL: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=r0fJIflmILY&t=OEgsToPDskJHohUEYvTfJuBaDEx-puYg
[download] Destination: r0fJIflmILY.flv
[download] 100.0% of 3.08M at 150.60k/s ETA 00:00
Here you see the downloaded video filename is in Flash Video format and named as r0fJIflmILY.flv.
Rename downloaded filename
If you would want to name is as (say winvssuse.flv) then try the following:
opensuse11:~ # youtube-dl winvssuse.flv http://www.youtube.com/v/r0fJIflmILY&hl=en&fs=1
Download videos requiring Username & Password
To download videos that requires username and password to access then you can pass the username and password as follows:
opensuse11:~ # youtube-dl -u tubeuser -p tubepass winvssuse.flv http://www.youtube.com/v/r0fJIflmILY&hl=en&fs=1
More advanced options are available from the authors website here
Once the file is downloaded, it should be viewable from your Favorite flash video player.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:21 am
No software needed.
Watch any youtube video in your browser… or at least get it loading and pause it. When the entire video is buffered do the following:
ls -l /tmp/Flash*
Depending on how many browser sessions you have had and how many videos you have watched there may multiple files listed. Pick the one closest to the time you started loading the video in your browser. To verify just play any /tmp/Flash* file with your favorite video player that can handle .flv videos.
mplayer /tmp/Flash{whatever}
Once you are sure you have identified the right file for the video you want to copy then just:
cp /tmp/Flash{whatever} ~/desired-name.flv
Tips: Make sure the video is fully cached in the player in your browser so when you do the cp you get a complete copy of the file. Make sure to cp before you to surf away from that video to another video… or the fully cached video will probably get deleted from /tmp.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:39 am
clive is pretty neat too.
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