Youtube video downloader?

clockwork · 2010-04-04 20:25:55

what is best app that isint a browser add on for downloading youtube videos,
i hate having to run flash on my netbook, tends to slow it down and heat it up...
i have a really good one on my android phone that even gives me the option to only download the audio, anything similar for linux?

rizzo · 2010-04-04 20:46:07

There are some cli based apps that do the job - youtube-dl, clive or cclive ( a lighter version of clive).

They all install and work work in similar ways. For example;

Install youtube-dl with :

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

then, after you do that, you can download movies by opening a terminal, and then entering youtube-dl and then the URL to the video as follows:

youtube-dl  http://www.youtube.com/video/url/

From what I can see clive seems to have the most options

charlie01 · 2010-04-04 22:05:36

I use net video hunter on my firefox,,,as an add-on..
But ive never used it on my netbook.

Thats a good find Omns,,,Im also going to give this a try...

pvsage · 2010-04-04 23:18:05

I just tried youtube-dl, and apparently it no longer works. Clive does appear to work though.

rich · 2010-04-04 23:35:54

Another quick way is to wait until the video is loaded (the red bar reaches the right hand side), then with the browser left open just go to your /tmp folder and copy the flash file to your home folder, rename it and hey presto, you've got the video ready to play on Vlc.

This is how me and my daughter create our local music video collections. Great if you haven't got access to internet at any point, you can still watch the videos. smile

charlie01 · 2010-04-05 00:27:08

richs-lxh wrote:

Another quick way is to wait until the video is loaded (the red bar reaches the right hand side), then with the browser left open just go to your /tmp folder and copy the flash file to your home folder, rename it and hey presto, you've got the video ready to play on Vlc.
This is how me and my daughter create our local music video collections. Great if you haven't got access to internet at any point, you can still watch the videos.

Thats brilliant,,,I would of never thought to do that..
Worked like a charm.

anonymous · 2010-04-05 02:42:09

For a Firefox addon, I rather like FlashGot.

clockwork · 2010-04-05 09:04:03

i tried youtube-dl and clive, only got clive to work... nice little app, looked in the Manual but neither have an audio only option... but still better then watching them in the browser

thanks again OMNS

kirmonkey · 2010-04-05 09:46:47

http://clipnabber.com/

littlepeon · 2010-04-05 09:56:29

youtube has been futzing around with they way they store the videos....
alot of downloaders that used to work before don't right now since the upgrades....
give the package maintainers a bug report to let them know that their packages now need to updated and they should fix them
clive, youtube-dl and others are now currently busted....

this should be fixed shortly as soon as the maintainers figure out the new code for the video files

melmoth · 2012-03-23 18:04:08

CrunchBang 10 "statler" r20110207 kernel 2.6.32-5-686 on Asus Eee PC series 702 (8GB SSD, 1GB RAM)
Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-30)(gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) )

Flash videos / elinks / cclive

http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2010/01/0 … -in-elinks
This article sounded promising so I gave it a try. It is 2 years old so after some readings about applications mentioned in this article I went for
'cclive'.
Available packages from repos were old so compiling new packages was the option.

I was following this helpful instructions on compiling:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

I downloaded tarballs for (I've read 'INSTALL' documents and collected necessary/missing 'prerequisites'):
cclive-0.7.9
libiconv-1.14
libquvi-0.4.0
libquvi-scripts-0.4.3
quvi-0.4.2
grake-0.1.0 (not installed)

No previous experience with compiling !
Tried first 'cclive', it showed me I have no PKG_CONFIG --> installed from repos.
Next was 'libquvi-scripts' --> OK
.. then 'libiconv' --> 'lua-5.1' is missing --> install --> missing 'liblua-dev'
--> instal 'liblua5.1-0-dev'
... then 'libcurl' is missing --> installed 'curl' 'libcurl4-gnutls-dev' - it gave me 15 new installs and 8 upgrades.

.... next 'libquvi' --> OK (finally went through)
..... next tried again 'cclive' --> missing 'libpcre' --> installed 'libpcre3' 'libpcre3-dev' ('libpcrecpp0' probably this one also newly installed)
.... then I needed to install 'libboost' packages from repositories. I didn't go for '-all' package but was installing one by one - it shows missing package during "./cofigure". By this choice I saved some space, I think smile

'libboost' packages that I've installed:
-date-time1.42-dev
-filesystem
-iostreams
-program-options
-regex
-serialization
-system
libboost1.42-dev

After these steps 'cclive' installation went OK.
I did some cleanings in all directories by "make clean".

It looks like all these installations took around 150 MB on disk space !!!

The main point was to watch videos using 'elinks'. so back to "urukrama's" blog.
The "command" part, came to point where downloading was working but playing NOT.
Using VLC player - it tried to play each name in filename separately (don't know why). it looked like this:

name of file: AB - CD
in VLC playist:
A
B
C
D
... and probably AB and CD but NOT AB - CD !!

used command:

cclive -q --output-dir=/home/melmoth/tmp --exec=\"vlc %f\" %c

(back slashes '\' were added by elinks itself).

then I was curious what 'quvi' will do. command:

quvi --exec "vlc %u" URL

( it works in terminal ) but not in elinks, it gives me error: no support: "url link"
Actually "url link" and URL (copied link from youtube) were not the same !

I hope I can be patient to do more testing.

Maybe someone can HELP me ?

melmoth

melmoth · 2012-03-30 11:44:09

back with elinks, quvi and vlc.

Today I tried playing videos on youtube and it played just fine with quvi.
Just vlc didn't play VP80 types !

actually command in elinks looks like this:

quvi –exec=\”vlc %u\” %c

... but command output (has lighter background in the picture) is print out to foreground in the same terminal-window, see picture:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d6/la … _scrot.png

...need to find out workaround for that, or can you help me ?

happy using to all.

Last edited by melmoth (2012-03-30 11:53:15)

melmoth · 2012-10-18 19:06:59

hey,

any news around ,quvi' or 'cclive' ?
anyone still using it ?

I've tried today after long time but no success.
so I guess it needs to be installed newest versions of packages (compile again).

NewCityVegas · 2012-10-18 22:32:05

My Google Chrome Youtube downloaders no longer work.

However, a few Firefox Youtube downloaders do:

http://www.youtubeenhancer.com/

You can download in FLV, MP4, or WEBM format.

For easiest and fastest conversion to H.264/MP3 MKV files, I typically used FLV format as source when downloading several Star Trek Fan Film episodes that were only available on Youtube.

mynis01 · 2012-10-18 22:51:57

I use the dwhelper addon for firefox. Tested it just now and it still works on youtube. Just don't use the built in encoding tool.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … oadhelper/

Last edited by mynis01 (2012-10-18 22:54:08)

melmoth · 2012-10-25 17:49:16

in my case I had installed older version of libquvi-scripts, so just installed new/latest version 0.4.9.
already I've tested it and it works !!!

I am still using Chromium and occasionally Opera, but guess it would be more convenient to use it inside the browser (maybe in the future). in my case installing quvi, cclive and rest it seems it took around 150 MB of disk space so A LOT, so small addon or widget would be easier for disk space and probably faster install.

happy watching smile

brontosaurusrex · 2012-10-25 19:57:11

youtube-dl script works fine here (tested today) and it weights 44k.
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2012-10-25 19:57:56)

cbdxs · 2012-10-25 22:53:34

rich wrote:

Another quick way is to wait until the video is loaded (the red bar reaches the right hand side), then with the browser left open just go to your /tmp folder and copy the flash file to your home folder, rename it and hey presto, you've got the video ready to play on Vlc.
This is how me and my daughter create our local music video collections. Great if you haven't got access to internet at any point, you can still watch the videos.

I like this idea. I am going to try it when I have the chance.

Jimbo_G · 2012-10-26 10:38:06

cbdxs wrote:

I like this idea. I am going to try it when I have the chance.

This is what I used to do, but for the last few months I haven't been able to find the flash files - I'm probably just not looking in the right place.

TeoBigusGeekus · 2012-10-29 22:09:00

For normal flash sites (except from youtube) see here.
For youtube, see here.

beadmaze · 2012-10-29 22:30:05

i read about forum etiquettes http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … etiquette/ and wonder if these don't apply to this thread or if just downloading youtube videos is legal in your legislation.
neutral

wuxmedia · 2012-10-29 22:34:15

I just use this.
platform indepedent. nothing to install.
choice of bitrate/file format.
multiple download 'sessions'
nice

EDIT: @beadmaze as has been shown above, watching a flash vid obliges you to download it (for the cache) on your computer.
If i were to ask about - burning it to a dvd, then printing a cover off and selling copies down the market for ten bucks - that would be different. roll

Last edited by wuxmedia (2012-10-29 22:40:55)

pvsage · 2012-10-29 22:41:12

@beadmaze: As a moderator, I have considered adding a disclaimer to the first post in this thread. A gray area this is.

There are a few sites that take measures to prevent their Flash content from being downloaded by anyone (without resorting to the "not available in your jurisdiction" nonsense that Youtube uses); naturally we won't discuss circumventing those measures, or whether it's even possible to circumvent them.

wuxmedia · 2012-10-29 22:46:26

anyway i thought the upload was the 'illegal' part of 'filesharing' there are many reasons you can download things legally.
grey areas, wink
anyway why did they invent DRM...?

lwfitz · 2012-10-30 01:09:03

TeoBigusGeekus wrote:

For normal flash sites (except from youtube) see here.
For youtube, see here.

As always, you rock buddy!

Most downloaders that Ive tried will work for a a while and then become a waste of space as youtube updates and changes their code. So now I usesavevid.com/ and it works great

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