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July 27, 2007, 07:34

All of the methods you used from WWW::Mechanize were inherited from LWP...

Here's a first go at a golf, very similar to yours:

perl -MLWP -e '($y,$i)=shift=~/^(.+m)\/.+v=(.+)/;($m=LWP::UserAgent->new)->get("$y/get_video?video_id=$i&t=".($m->get("$y/v/$i")->request->uri=~/&t=(.+)/)[0],":content_file"=>"$i.flv")'
'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l69Vi5IDc0g'

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