Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Users [LWN.net]

Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Users

Posted Feb 17, 2007 6:03 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Users by endecotp
Parent article: Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Designers (internetnews.com)

I have tried VideoDownloader, and recommend against using it. It is not very reliable, and has a somewhat clunky interface. I've had it crash firefox, I've had it break during upgrades.

I'm quite happy with youtube-dl, a python script which just downloads the flv files to the current directory. It takes any sort of semi-appropriate youtube url as an argument. http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/

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Flash for Linux -- It's Not for Users

Posted Feb 20, 2007 8:07 UTC (Tue) by Seegras (guest, #20463) [Link]

Even easier, my yousuck-script is just one line (splitted for your reading pleasure):

wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4)" \
http://www.youtube.com/get_video?`wget -O - "$1" 2> /dev/null | grep \
player2.swf | cut -d \" -f 2 | cut -d \& -f 1,3 | cut -d \? -f 2`