Saving Youtube Videos in Fedora

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Suvayu Ali wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:26:57 -0400
> james tate <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> At one time Youtube videos were being temp. downloaded while playing
>> to the /tmp directory where you could save from, but now it seems
>> that is no longer the case.
>> 
>> Where are they being temp. downloaded to in Fedora now ?
> 
> Two solutions:
> 
> 1. # yum install youtube-dl
> 2. I use this shell function sometimes: (beware of word wrapping)
> 
> function play_flash()
> {
>     for idx in $(pgrep -u $USER -f 'flashplayer\.so'); do
> echo "Browser:" $(egrep 'Name:' /proc/${idx}/status| cut -f 2) "PID:" $idx
> echo -n "        FDs:"
> for fd in $(lsof -p $idx|egrep '/tmp/Flash'|egrep -o -E '\<[0-9]+[a-z]\>'|
> tr -d 'a-z'); do
> echo -n "  $fd"
> done
> echo
> echo
>     done
> 
>     echo "Select browser (by PID) and file descriptor (space separated)"
>     read -p ': ' PID FD
>     echo
>     [ ! -z ${PID} ] &&  mplayer -ontop $@ /proc/${PID}/fd/${FD}
> }
> 
> GL
> 

I have been using your old version for months now, since we last conversed on 
this subject, and it is the best!!!

I had a little problem, however, as I use flash with nspluginwrapper, so 
grepping on libflashplayer.so didn't quite work.

I had to kind of dissect your code, as I don't know how to write such a 
complex script, and this is what I use at present...

*

To save flash videos currently displayed in Firefox, get the pid of the flash 
plugin (and nspluginwrapper, if being used) and the file descriptors for the 
flash files.

Without nspluginwraper:

ps -fu yourlogin | egrep 'libflashplayer\.so'

With nspluginwrapper:

ps -fu yourlogin | egrep 'libflashplayer\.so' | egrep 'npviewer.bin'

Navigate to:

/proc/<pid_from_above>/fd

Copy the deleted /tmp/Flash* files:

cp <links_to_deleted_files> ~/Documents/tmp/