Features
- Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)
- Supports:
Youtube
GoogleVideo
Dailymotion
Guba
Metacafe
Sevenload
Myvideo
- Bandwidth throttle
- Multi-URL (batch) support
- Compatible with UNIX pipes
- Configuration file support
- Integration with X clipboard (xclip)
- Chain with a 3rd party player software for playing
- Chain with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding
- Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting
Further more:
- High/low-quality support where applicable (e.g. Youtube)
- URL caching; re-fetch video page only if necessary
- Cache browsing
- Parse and extract videos from RSS/Atom feeds
- Scan and extract embedded videos (Youtube, GoogleVideo)
- Recall last URL batch
- Overridable output filename formatting
- Overridable video page title parsing
- Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override
- Automatic Metacafe family-filter override
- Dailymotion log-in support
- Gzip compressed video page data transfers
- Continue partially downloaded files*
*=excluding Youtube/FLV and GoogleVideo/FLV
Install clive in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install clive
This will complete the installation.
Clive Example
clive http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LToULvLhE&feature=dir
Usage: clive [options] URLs
For more option check here
wow that is so cool.. thanks
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Nice tool. Thanks a lot.
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Or you can install DowloadHelper. It’s a free Firefox extension for downloading videos and images from many sites with minimum effort.
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Thank you, just great. Can it be used with a gui?
James.
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“Can it be used with a gui?” Are we talking about linux? I don’t know why bother to get a script when there are web sites to do that. I’m quite surprised with what appears in Delicious Linux . Cong. People discover that in the shell (black cursor blinking) they can do such things.
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I used another tool named youtube-dl (exclusive for youtube), and then apply ffmpeg to convert the flv to mpeg
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
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by the way… I’ve never posted before, but I’m a huge UbuntuGeek fan!!!
greetings from Chile!!
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this is my favorite
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590
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clive can easily be used behind a proxy, like privoxy, which is useful if you’re using tor.
if you’re using tor, check out this discussion forum:
http://l6nvqsqivhrunqvs.onion/?do=main
only works if you’re running tor
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you dont need to use youtube-dl, clive not only downloads, but can download AND convert. read clive’s actual website for christ’s sake.
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It supports unix,that rocks.
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The requested URL /clive/sheet.shtml was not found on this server.
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new Clive homepage at http://clive.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
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Hi, can I make firefox to use clive to load/retrieve youtube video? so if I like the video, then I copy it from /tmp… because I cannot play the flv flash files I got from /tmp or downloadHelper… but I can play those downloaded from clive!
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WOW me funciono perfecto es muy bueno mil gracias!
WOW it works perfectly and it’s very cool many many thanks!
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Hi, I am not sure if I the installation worked on my computer. I typed in the command and it seemed to work, but now I can’t find the programm and/or I don’t really understood what I have to do to download a video.
Help?
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