Downloading YouTube Videos with a Perl One-Liner

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June 03, 2009, 05:16

PS - If you have to use a browser with flash support, you might as well use a plugin like the author mentioned: e.g. LiveHTTPheaders for Firefox, which gives can handle regex and you a formatted URL. Unless you're piping the tcpdump output into something else.
YouTube has made it easier to download directly. I think because so much effort has been put by users into making this easier, whether with Perl, Awk, Python, VB, whatever.
If someone publishes an article on how to get the URL without using a flash browser, then I think we will really see a change in how sites use flash. Because ultimately people just want the video; they don't care how they get it. And not everyone across the globe has a fast internet connection. Streaming is great if you have the bandwidth for it. But not everyone in the world has the bandwidth.

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