[wplug] Youtube downloading in Linux with wget?

[R.E.Coutch]

All part of Youtube's effort to prevent you from getting videos.

The easy way to get them is to use Firefox and get the Download Helper 2.5 
extension from the extensions website (See the add-on screen in Firefox)

-- OR --

Go to http://keepvid.com - You'll see how that works when you get to the 
website.




On Saturday 24 November 2007 21:08, Zach wrote:
> Whenever I download an .FLV file from Youtube it seems to only
> partially download :(
>
> So I tried using wget (since it has the very nifty "-c" option) but
> when I feed in the URL it complains about not being able to find it.
>
> Yet when I use the Fast Video Download extension in Firefox it has no
> trouble downloading the file, ie click on Video Downloader and it
> prompts me to download the actual filename as in:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0_9IGWFvQ  -> "Merry Christmas Mr.
> Bean - pt. 1.flv"
>
> Here are the wget errors:
>
> wget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv0_9IGWFvQ
> results in:  `watch?v=Zv0_9IGWFvQ' saved [118184/118184]
>
> This download just the HTML page in which the video is embeded.
>
> I even tried looking at the From property in the Download box and
> feeding that to wget:
>
> zu22 at netrek:~$ wget
> http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=Zv0_9IGWFvQ&t=OEgsToPDskLloOCg2Tiu2xK
>yotj-flpR [1] 24143
> zu22 at netrek:~$ --21:06:49-- 
> http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=Zv0_9IGWFvQ =>
> `get_video?video_id=Zv0_9IGWFvQ'
> Resolving youtube.com... 208.65.153.238, 208.65.153.251, 208.65.153.253
> Connecting to youtube.com|208.65.153.238|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
> 21:06:50 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>
> Anyone have a clue how I can download this with wget or some other FOSS
> program?
>
> I run Debian testing release with 2.6.18 kernel.
>
> Zach
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