Downloading YouTube Videos with a Perl One-Liner

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Shawn Permalink
July 27, 2007, 07:52

A little shorter:

perl -MWWW::Mechanize -e'$y="http://youtube.com";($i)=pop=~/\w+$/g;$m=new WWW::Mechanize;$m->get("$y/v/$i")->request->uri=~/&t=.+/;$m->get("$y/get_video?video_id=$i$&",":content_file"=>"$i.flv")'
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