Comments on: Download and convert YouTube video online and offline

By: Yannvolt

Yannvolt — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:39:15 +0000

Very helpful indeed. I have known vixy.net only and this article helped me find an array of other similar tools. Thanks.

By: antonio ramirez

antonio ramirez — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:59:28 +0000

Hi there, I have recently created an online tool to search among best video providers all at once. It has also an option where they can download the videos… your opinion would be highly appreciated.

The site is http://www.antcut.com

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:04:40 +0000

I had an issue with the audio when I used ffmpeg, but Kino converts these .flv files to mpeg just fine.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:02:55 +0000

You should have a ‘You Tube’ folder within your home folder that was created when you ran the script.

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:02:29 +0000

I was able to run script successfully…but could not located where the file saved to

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:18:21 +0000

Thanks for the script!

By: artiomix

artiomix — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:11:08 +0000

Hi Oliver,

To use this script you should create executable file by commands:

touch /tmp/script.sh chmod +x /tmp/script.sh

then edit this file with your favourite text editor:

nano /tmp/script.sh

and insert above mentioned code into it (see lx’s comment).
Once it’s saved it’s time to start it by executing command:

/tmp/script.sh

Hope it helps!

By: oliver

oliver — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:19:08 +0000

Hi
How do i use the script above what programming language is it in
Thanks

By: artiomix

artiomix — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:01:24 +0000

Thanks, lx! Nice BASH script

By: lx

lx — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:12:33 +0000

a nice, simple python script that and converts to mpg from the commandline.
Thank you, Crouse!
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#!/bin/bash
# by Crouse
# Program name ytr = YouTube.com Ripper
baseurl=”http://youtube.com/get_video.php?”
mkdir -p ~/YouTube ;
mkdir -p ~/YouTube/tmp ;
cd ~/YouTube/tmp ;
read -p “What is the youtube.com url you want to rip ? ” urltorip ;
read -p “What would you like to name the video (no spaces in the name) ? ” nameofvideo ;
wget ${urltorip} -O urlsource.txt ;
grep “watch_fullscreen” urlsource.txt > url.info;
videourl=`sed “s;.*$video_id.\+$&title.*;\1;” url.info`;
fullurl=${baseurl}${videourl};
echo ${fullurl};
rm *;
wget ${fullurl};
mv * *.flv;
echo “Now converting the file to mpeg … this can take awhile, please be patient” ;
ffmpeg -i *.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 ${nameofvideo}.mpg;
mv *.mpg ../;
rm -Rf ~/YouTube/tmp;
exit