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Youtube dl

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Youtube-dl is a little command-line utility designed in order to download videos from YouTube.com.
Youtube-dl should work in Mac OS X, in your Unix box and in Windows. It's licensed under the MIT License, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like complying with a few simple conditions.
I'll try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access their videos. After all, it's a simple and short program. However, I can't guarantee anything. If you detect it stops working, check for new versions and/or inform me about the problem, indicating the program version you are using. If the program stops working and I can't solve the problem but you have a solution, I'd like to know it.
Here are some key features of "Youtube dl":
· You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in youtube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar".
· Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they're flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password for a YouTube.com account with the -u and -p options, like youtube-dl -u myusername -p mypassword "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar".
· The account data can also be read from the user .netrc file by indicating the -n or --netrc option. The machine name is youtube in that case.
· The simulate mode (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you prefer that option.
· The quiet mode (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.
· The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard output using the -g or --get-url option.
· Combined with the above option, the -2 or --title-too option tells the program to print the video title too.
· The default filename is video_id.flv. But you can also use the video title in the filename with the -t or --title option.
· youtube-dl honors the http_proxy environment variable if you want to use a proxy. Set it to something like http://proxy.example.com:8080, and do not leave the http:// prefix out.
· You can get the program version by calling it as youtube-dl -v or youtube-dl --version.
· For usage instructions, use youtube-dl -h or youtube-dl --help.
· You can cancel the program at any time pressing Ctrl+C. It may print some error lines saying something about KeyboardInterrupt. That's ok.
Requirements:
· Python interpreter 2.4 or later

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