how to download videos

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 06:46:43 UTC 2010



On 06/16/2010 11:38 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 21:22 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
>    
>> that's correct, but if it possible to get /download that video from
>> the terminal? like by typing the URL containing the video or fetch
>> video id. or something like that and than downloading, though GUI
>> downloader plugin does that.
>>      
> If you can find the address of the media file that's actually played,
> rather than just the media player, you can download that with the wget
> command.  *Finding* out that information is the harder part.
>
> With the Flashblock Firefox plugin, you can copy the address of
> currently blocked Flash content, and paste that address into something
> else, such as the command line.  But what I've said previously still
> stands:  Sometimes you'll find the address for a directly playable Flash
> file, othertimes you'll end up with the address for the Flash player,
> and that player would normally have played the media in the webpage.
> But it won't do anything for you when you download it as a file.
>
>    
I have been using "Video Downloadhelper"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/
for Firefox add-on which
has a pop-up menu, which has a choice to copy the
flash's url to the clipboard.
You can then paste that url to the  wget command.


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