Programming and Scripting :: Script for downloading Youtube videos

Okay, Youtube changed their video downloading possibilities, in an attempt to prevent downloading their videos. So here's a new ver that can still download

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#!/bin/bash # Script for downloading Youtube videos. Base was from nixcraft.org # Edited by Curaga for my liking (Added ability for nearly unlimited URLs, help, # comments, and ability to get urls from args) case $1 in -h | *help ) echo "Usage: ${0##*/} url1 url2.. or just ${0##*/} and type the urls" exit 0 ;; esac ripurl="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?" tmp=`mktemp` touch $tmp.flv mkdir -p ~/YouTube;cd ~/YouTube url="not empty in da beginning" until [ -z "$url" ]; do if [ -n "$1" ] && [[ $1 = http://* ]]; then url=$1 elif [ -n "$1" ]; then echo "Not a valid url. http:// required."; exit 1; fi if [ -z "$1" ]; then read -p "YouTube URL? Press enter to exit. " url; fi if [ -z "$url" ]; then rm $tmp clear; echo -e "\n    Finished." exit 0; fi echo echo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ echo -e "                  Now getting the page for analysis.\n" wget -nv "$url" -O $tmp uf=$ripurl`grep watch_fullscreen $tmp | sed "s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;"` nv=`grep 'h1 id="video_title"' $tmp | cut -d ">" -f 2 | cut -d "<" -f 1` echo -e "\n\n  Title: $nv\n\n" wget "$uf" -O $tmp.flv echo "" > $tmp newname=`echo $nv | sed 's;/;\/;g'` mv "$tmp.flv" "$newname.flv" echo -e "\n\n $HOME/Youtube/$newname.flv ready.\n" shift done