Bash: youtube ripper

crouse · 2006-08-25 06:20:05

My son likes youtube videos, and wanted an easy way to download them.... So I wrote a bash script to do the honors.

This script will rip the .flv file from a youtube.com url, and convert it to a .mpg video file...

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#!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

noriko · 2006-08-25 07:13:24

:twisted: awsome dude...

now i can get all my fav~ Suicide ?Club clips without having to do the werk myself (yes i'm a lazy fk)

ise · 2006-08-25 07:59:23

Hi,
nice work.....But there is already such a tool: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

Daniel

alexpnx · 2006-08-25 12:16:03

you can use http://keepvid.com/lite/ to download those flv files (not only for youtube)

postlogic · 2006-08-25 12:55:33

youtube-dl is probably better, cause it has error handling and such.

Nice to have it converted, though.

nachete · 2006-08-25 14:05:46

alexpnx wrote:

you can use http://keepvid.com/lite/ to download those flv files (not only for youtube)

There's also a Firefox extension for downloading the flvs: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/

detto · 2006-08-25 17:34:14

postlogic wrote:

youtube-dl is probably better, cause it has error handling and such.
Nice to have it converted, though.

also using youtube-dl now, never knew it thx!
but indeed its nice to have it conerted to an mpg, so also thanks to u crouse

cheers,
detto

crouse · 2006-08-25 20:57:42

Someone mentioned i should have used some error checking.... but I just put it together for quick use by my son, never put much more thought than that into it lol.

I didn't know about the firefox extention or the website that did the same thing either untill after i had written it. The website http://keepvid.com/lite/ does work very well. Again, i didn't realize that existed until about 2 hours after i had written the bash one. Ah well.... it was good practice

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