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DATE | 2011-05-18 |
FROM | Ruben Safir
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [rick@linuxmafia.com: [conspire] YouTube downloading software
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 19:55:15 -0700 From: Rick Moen To: conspire-at-linuxmafia.com Subject: [conspire] YouTube downloading software (was: get back to me first) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
I should also acknowledge Micah Lee's really useful posting on this subject. Thanks, Micah!
This is my compendium of links relative to my suggestion to Bruce Coston, just posted (http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2011-May/006225.html) that he deal with his video streaming problem with YouTube and similar sites through use of downloaders, which in turn _can_ also permit, if he wishes, losing that dreadful Adobe Flash plugin software and substituting open-source compatibles (gnash, swfdec, GPLFlash).
Here's the laundry list, which I hope will prove useful. Remember, you should usually favour distro packages where available, rather than going to upstream links (such as those cited). All codebases mentioned are genuine open source.
clive is a Flash video extraction tool in Perl for user-uploaded video hosts such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba, and Metacafe. It can be chained with 3rd party tools for subsequent video re-encoding and playing and playing. http://home.gna.org/clive/
clive-utils is a collection of add-on tools to parse RSS feeds, parse video pages, and manage login passwords related to video sites. http://code.google.com/p/clive-utils/
cclive is a rewrite of clive in C++ for lower system load. http://cclive.sourceforge.net/
abby is a Qt-based graphical front end in C++ for clive and cclive. http://code.google.com/p/abby/
youtube-dl is a (command-line) Python script for downloading Flash or WebM (vp8 + Vorbis) video clips for YouTube.com, Google Video, Photobucket, Yahoo Video, Dailymotion, DepositFiles, and some other sites. You provide the clip's URL, and youtube-dl saves the clip as a local file with file extension .flv. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
For maximum compatibility with even the more difficult (DRM-obscured) YouTube clips, you should also install the rtmpdump program to decrypt files served using Adobe's proprietary 'RTMP' protocol. See: http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/documentation.html
YouTube Downloader GUI is a Qt/kdelibs front-end for youtube-dl: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Youtube-Downloader-GUI-28348.shtml
Qttube is a similar Qt front-end for youtube-dl: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QtTube
Flash Video Downloader is a Firefox extension to download Flash video clips from YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com, and many other sites. http://www.flashvideodownloader.org/
Easy YouTube Downloader is a Firefox (and Chromium / Chrome) extension to download YouTube videos in FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP4 and 720p HD and 1080p Full-HD qualities. http://www.yourvideofile.com/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/
quvi is a command-line tool in C for parsing Flash video links out of YouTube and similar sites. http://quvi.sourceforge.net/
PyTube is a Python app that searches and downloads YouTube video clips and encodes them using FFMpeg: http://pytube.sourceforge.net/ (gone from: http://bashterritory.com, http://www.getdeb.net/app/PyTube, http://www.marcosrodriguez.me/pytube/)
pytube (different codebase) is a Python script for YouTube and MetaCafe that de-obscures the video clip's URL from its obscuring Javascript, so that you can download it. http://code.google.com/p/pytube/
Note: There was for a long time a Python / gtk+2 graphical application _also_ called Pytube, but unfortunately everyone relied on someone else to host it, and it it appears to have vanished from the Internet.
Utube Ripper (formally Youtube Downloader for Linux) is an application written in Gambas that works exclusively on Linux. It's useful to download and convert Youtube videos in a simple and efficient way. http://sourceforge.net/projects/utube/
(g)vdown is an application that can download videos from video sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, MyVideo and so on. It is written in Python. It has a commandline interface (vdown) and a PyGTK interface (gvdown). http://code.google.com/p/vdown/
gnetvideoplayer a player and downloader for YouTube and Stage6 videos, and depends on wget, MPlayer, and GtkMediaPlayer.
Get YouTube Video is a KDE service menu usable with Konqueror to download YouTube Flash video clips. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Get+YouTube+Video+(improved)?content=41456
gnetvideoplayer is a C program for GNOME to extract Flash from YouTube. https://forxa.mancomun.org/frs/?group_id=108
youshell is a Python script to search and download Flash video clips from YouTube and load them into Mplayer. http://code.google.com/p/youshell/
Elltube is a graphical Python / Qt4 YouTube Flash downloader and converter. http://elltube.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Rocket is a Java program to download YouTube and other clips http://www.mp3rocket.com/
Articles: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/442454-youtube-tools-for-the-linux-desktop http://arun.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/download-youtube-videos-the-linux-way/ http://www.junauza.com/2010/01/download-youtube-videos-from-linux.html http://maketecheasier.com/download-youtube-videos-for-offline-viewing-on-linux/2009/02/09/ http://linux.byexamples.com/archives/302/how-to-wget-flv-from-youtube/ http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/youtube_and_gnu_linux_download_and_convert_videos_easy_way#
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