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I've seen a bunch of scripts that allow one to download or convert youtube videos, but I'm trying to convert a standard youtube url to a url that ends with .flv (something like http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=TJhP6pyVu20.flv). can this be accomplished using the shell? ultimately this would be for a little streaming application I'm working on in Max/MSP, so i need to access the videos remotely

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Eddie

Hi Eddie! How is that link generated? I'm seeing some posts that say that get_video doesn't work anymore... If you do have a link that works, and a way to reliably translate the standard URL, it should be fairly easy to script out

Hi Jeo,

Sorry for the delay in response...been busy with family for the holidays and such.

Actually I just made up the .flv extension as an example for what I was looking for.

As far as retrieving the youtube video id, I've been parsing an xml file of a youtube video retrieved using a web API from the music information company "the EchoNest" (they provide nice information related to bands...music video links, etc). Here is the page where I used the API to retrieve the xml file (I modified the example a bit): http://developer.echonest.com/docs/v4/artist.html#video

Here is the modified example: http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/artist/video?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&name=radiohead&format=xml&results=1

The xml file returns the standard youtube url of a radiohead concert (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_eBqlFpnNY) as well as the video id (81722f06b70922cb47fd424caae545a2).

Here are a couple of relatively recent stackoverflow links that might help to provide a solution...one uses curl, the other python. Youtube always seems to be one step ahead...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3850934/downloading-flv-from-youtube-using-curlpp-on-top-of-curl-video-not-playing

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2678051/cant-download-youtube-video

Sorry I couldn't help much / for writing such a long post!

P.S. it would also be awesome to have a bash script for parsing Vimeo urls, as I've read that vimeo uses the .M4A format, and they are much more lenient than youtube...

Cheers,
Eddie