Downloading YouTube Videos with a Perl One-Liner

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August 17, 2009, 03:07

I give the edge to quandary based on non-'base system' lines of code needed.

A shell script plus the wget binary (or whatever small http client binary you use)

vs.

WWW::Mechanize and all it dependencies plus the perl binary plus the oneliner

And re: the 'whatever-zilla' spam by 'Josh', in addition to pk's impressive demos, we already have
- statically-linked cclive (curl)
- youtube-dl (python)

Both free and very reliable, even on the slowest connections.

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