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1. http://bashscripts.org/viewtopic.php?t=210

   
#!/bin/bash
bu="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?";mkdir -p ~/YouTube;cd ~/YouTube;read -p "YouTube url? " ur;read -p "Name? " nv
wget ${ur} -O /tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /tmp/y1 | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d" -f1`;wget "${uf}" -O /tmp/y.flv
ffmpeg -i /tmp/y.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg;rm /tmp/y.flv; rm /tmp/y1;rm gmon.out; exit

   BASH RULES 🙂

2. Hee

   Nice and dirty bash work

   Appreciate your post.

3. lol @ rm gmon.out

4. Great information, thanks very much!

   You might try this for Zsh (maybe modern Bournes?):
   
ytdl () {
video_id=${1#http://*youtube.com/watch?v=}
video_id=${video_id#http://*youtube.com/v/}
video_id=${video_id%&*}
player_line=`ftp -o - "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$video_id"|grep /player2.swf`
base_getter_url=http://youtube.com/get_video.php?
url=${player_line/*player2.swf?/$base_getter_url}
url=${url%%"*}
ftp -o $video_id.flv "$url"
ffmpeg -i $video_id.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 $video_id.mpg
echo
echo mplayer $video_id.mpg
}


   If you have an ftp with HTTP support.

5. Nice to see you are using Zsh 🙂

   Appreciate your script/post.

6. great 😀
   thats real hacking lol

7. The ZSH code has a problem:

   ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4718, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
   built on Apr 4 2005 06:01:28, gcc: 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728
   Input #0, flv, from ‘j0u_F8-oYQE.flv’:
   Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
   Stream #0.0: Audio: mp3, 22050 Hz, mono
   Stream #0.1: Video: flv, 320×240, 15.00 fps
   Output #0, mpeg, to ‘j0u_F8-oYQE.mpg’:
   Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video, 320×240, 15.00 fps, q=2-31, 500 kb/s
   Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 22050 Hz, mono, 56 kb/s
   Stream mapping:
   Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
   Stream #0.0 -> #0.1
   [mpeg1video @ 0x282f4010]MPEG1/2 doesnt support 15/1 fps
   Error while opening codec for stream #0.0 – maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

8. Here’s the bash script, made more solid. I fixed the ffmpeg call (it doesn’t like making 15fps mpeg files), and kept the flv at the end.

   If you want to use the flv from your own apache server you’ll need to add

   video/x-flv flv

   to /etc/mime.types and restart apache, then go and get flash_flv player from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/flash_flv_player.zip

   unpack it, put flvplayer.swf and flvplayer.html on your site with the .flv, and modify flvplayer.html appropriately

   #!/bin/bash
   bu=”http://youtube.com/get_video.php?”
   tmp=`mktemp`
   touch ${tmp}.flv
   read -p “YouTube url? ” ur
   wget ${ur} -O ${tmp}
   uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf ${tmp} | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d” -f1`
   nv=`cat ${tmp} | grep ‘h1 id=”video_title”‘ | cut -d “>” -f 2 | cut -d “

9. #!/bin/bash
   bu=”http://youtube.com/get_video.php?”
   tmp=`mktemp`
   touch ${tmp}.flv
   read -p “YouTube url? ” ur
   wget ${ur} -O ${tmp}
   uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf ${tmp} | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d” -f1`
   nv=`cat ${tmp} | grep ‘h1 id=”video_title”‘ | cut -d “>” -f 2 | cut -d “

10. nv=`cat ${tmp} | grep ‘h1 id=”video_title”‘ | cut -d “>” -f 2 | cut -d “lt” -f 1`

    *** i can’t post a less than symbol, so change the lt in that command to a less than symbol

    echo “Title ${nv}”
    wget “${uf}” -O ${tmp}.flv
    ffmpeg -i ${tmp}.flv -r 30 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 1500k -s 320×240 “${nv}.mpg”
    mv ${tmp}.flv “${nv}.flv”
    rm ${tmp}
    exit

11. James,

    You can use
    <pre>code</pre>

    or
    <code>code</code> tags 🙂

12. I use http://www.savetube.com to save any youtube videos. They also got a latest saved section.

13. I recommend http://www.snatchvid.com it’s very easy and fast to use!

14. does anybody know how he arrived to the get_video.php ? i mean how did he know that that php file existed on youtube servers?

15. Uhm…youtube has changed their code. now this script doesn’t work any more, from something like 20th August – 20007. Anyone can help fix the code? savetube.com has done it

16. A good script is Mortube
    Demo: http://www.morllaines.com/busca_youtube/?tag=brasil (Portuguese)
    Download: http://www.morllaines.com/downloads/arquivo.php?file=54 (English)

    The script require youtube apy key on config.php
    And Curl installed on server

17. #!/bin/bash

    ### mr-paul
    ### paul@sci.ubu.ac.th

    if [ “$1” = “” ]; then
    echo -e “nUsage: getyoutube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHvAXLBMWGIn”
    else
    url=$1
    name=${url:(-11)} ### get the last 11 chars
    #echo $name

    fullscreenURL=$( wget -q -nv $url -O – | grep &video_id= )
    echo $fullscreenURL
    title=${fullscreenURL##*=} ### delete to last occurance of ‘=’
    title=${title/’;/} ### replace ‘; with nothing ${title:(-2)} or #{title#(-2)} do not work’ 🙁
    echo $title

    videoID=${fullscreenURL:54} ### cut first 53 chars
    videoID=${videoID/’;/} ##
    echo $videoID

    wget -q -nv “http://www.youtube.com/get_video?$videoID” -O “$title.flv”
    fi

18. Hmm, anyone got a perl one liner for this job? 😉

19. There’s now a software tool to allow linux users to download youtube videos to a preferred directory, in a variety of formats (mpeg, wmv, mp4, flv, avi), specifying the resolution… all in a GTK theme’d graphical tool.

    Check it here:
    http://yourtubedownloader.awardspace.com/

    Feedback most appreciated, via the forums or by email.

20. Wearetherock, MANY THANKS! Simplicity is what I like, great script.

21. Nice youtube script, thanks so much!

    Mark

22. Good script to do this in bash here:
    http://blog.johnlawrence.net/2008/12/youtube-download-shell-script/

    Works with the latest YouTube versions. (As of December 2008)

23. usage: utube NAME youtubeurl

    #!/bin/bash
    if [ $# -ne 2 ]
    then
    echo “Usage : $0 ”
    echo “e.g : $0 steve_jobs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA”
    else
    todnload=$(youtube-dl -g -b $2 | xargs wget –spider 2>&1 | grep Location: | awk '{print $2}')
    #echo -e “Got the file…n$todnload”
    axel $todnload -q -o ~/$1.flv
    echo “Download Completed…”
    ffmpeg -i $1.flv -r 50 -ar 48000 -ab 196000 -b 300k -croptop 0 -cropbottom 0 -cropleft 0 -cropright 0 $1.mp4
    echo "Cleaning up..."
    rm ~/$1.flv
    rm ~/videoplayback?ip*
    echo "Done! Enjoy watching $1"
    fi

24. #!/bin/bash
    # checking whether you have youtube-dl
    if [ ! -x `which youtube-dl`  ];then
    echo “Error! youtube-dl isn’t installed.”
    exit 0
    fi
    
    #checking whether you have vbrfix
    if [ ! -x `which vbrfix`  ];then
    echo “Error! vbrfix isn’t installed.”
    exit 0
    fi
    
    #download video(s)
    for URL in $*; do
    youtube-dl -t “$1&fmt=18″
    done
    
    #process
    for VIDEO in `ls *.flv`; do
    OUTPUT=${VIDEO:0:${#VIDEO}-4}”.mp3″
    ffmpeg -i $VIDEO -acodec copy $OUTPUT
    #move video
    mv $OUTPUT /home/$USER/music
    vbrfix /home/$USER/music/$OUTPUT /home/$USER/music/$OUTPUT
    rm -rf vbrfix.log vbrfix.tmp
    #clean-up
    rm -rf $VIDEO
    done
    echo “Done.”

25. There’s a new script for linux to search and watch youtube’s video on linux shell, called YouShell.

    http://code.google.com/p/youshell/

26. I think you should update the article, the project has apparently moved to github:

    http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

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