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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:37:16 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: downloading video from http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=...
Message-ID:  <20080214003716.5cabb3d1@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20080213215221.GA15493@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
References:  <20080213150712.GA9811@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20080213215221.GA15493@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:52:21 +0000
Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there any command line tool in FreeBSD for downloading a video
> > from a URL like
> > http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928
> > in the way youtube-dl, for example, does? Thx in advance
> > 
> > 	matthias
> 
> Not exactly what you're looking for but there is a video downloader
> extension for firefox that works with video.google amongst others:
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
> 
> I suppose by reverse engineering the video downloader extension you
> could probably come up with a perl/python script to use from the
> command line. AFAIK nobodys done this.

Do this and youtube-dl still work?

I recently tried to download some youtube videos with the
all-in-one video bookmarket, which used to work fine, and it didn't find
any video on the pages.  I think youtube may have change the way they
display video.



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