YouTube Video Downloaders

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Perl one-liners explained

I decided to create some 5 - 10 youtube video downloaders in various programming languages just for fun. I have probably programmed in 15 languages total and I need to refresh knowledge in some of them.

I will probably create one great desktop application in C++, and the others will be in various scripting languages.

I hope YouTube does not change the way videos are fetched too soon otherwise I will have to update all these scripts - not a cool thing to do.

At the moment I have already written YouTube video downloaders in the following languages:

GNU Awk (gawk).
Download: gawk youtube video downloader.
Writing a YouTube Video Downloader in VBScript.
Download: vbscript youtube video downloader.
Perl (oneliner).

Each link contains description how to use the downloader and also how the downloader was written.

Also I have written a YouTube video uploader:

How to Upload YouTube Videos Programmatically.
Download: youtube video uploader (perl script).

I have discontinued writing these programs. It was fun when I was a kid, but now I have grown out of it.

Comments

Clay Permalink

August 01, 2007, 06:14

your link is broken: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/downloading-youtube-videos-with-a-perl-one-liner

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Peteris Krumins pkrumins Permalink

August 01, 2007, 10:59

Clay, thank you so much for finding this broken link! Fixing right now!

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c5 Permalink

February 03, 2008, 04:40

Thanks for visiting my blog! :)
You have an interesting one yourself. :)
Will subscribe ;)

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praveen Permalink

February 03, 2008, 19:38

Could you please provide me if you have any video lecture on COBOL.

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Turin Permalink

April 30, 2008, 05:27

Peter, how do you make the youtube DL web based? I'm using your VBScript...working well. Thanks much!

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Mark Permalink

September 30, 2008, 07:05

Can you put up an expanded version of your Perl YouTube downloader that is not a one-liner?

One-liners in Perl (and Golf, too) are one of the things that have damaged Perl's reputation among programmers who don't know much about Perl.

If you perpetuate one-liner solutions by promoting them without offering the full more understandable alternative, you are helping to harm Perl by scaring people away from it based on a false flaw they think it has. True that Golf is fun, but don't let people get the idea that Golf is what Perl is about.

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LINDA Permalink

November 22, 2008, 20:19

I WANT TO KNOW HOW I CAN PUT A VIDEO MUSIC AND WRITE A POEM INTOP OF IT AT THE SAME TIME ..THANKSZ

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Bernard Permalink

January 23, 2009, 19:40

Hello Peteris,
I've noticed that your script "get_youtube_vids.awk" that I used about a month ago, doesn't work anymore today.
I suspect that they've changed something at www.youtube.com?
Thankyou,
Bernard

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Jigas Permalink

July 18, 2009, 11:29

exelent coding. I guess it's the same way downloading mp4 (hq) vids from ytube , right?

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Developer Permalink

April 10, 2010, 19:16

Hi,
I downloaded the VBScript file. Ran it on Windows7. But, after I gave the Youtube video URL, I get an err msg saying -
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Windows Script Host
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Could not extract fmt_url_map from the video page.
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OK
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Any idea, how to fix this ?

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