Includes support for the following sites/players (and more!):
* YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph …), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv.
* Also includes a ‘generic’ method which works on many other sites.
You can check project home page
Install get-flash-videos in Ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following commands , this installs it system-wide or download .deb package from here
sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-simple-perl
wget http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/files/get-flash-videos_1.21-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i get-flash-videos_1.21-1_all.deb
get-flash-videos Syntax
get_flash_videos url..
Usage Examples
Play a video (may prompt for filename still, override with -y):
get_flash_videos -p http://some.site/video
Download a video (note quotes are required for URLs with special characters like ‘&’ in):
get_flash_videos “http://some.site/video?f=1&v=1234″
Play the URL on the clipboard (UNIX):
xclip -o | xargs get_flash_videos -y -p
Play the first video matching “Open Source”:
get_flash_videos -y -p Open Source
Install a plugin:
get_flash_videos --add-plugin http://website.com/PluginName.pm
Screenshot
I still like my script (obviously) because it was my first script I ever wrote.
http://lifehacker.com/5206354/save-the-last-flash-movie-you-watched
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wish i found one that worked for nhl.com
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Same purpose but it has a GUI and it can convert videos too:
http://damnvid.googlecode.com/
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I always find it amusing that the kernel team do their best to ensure that the core of linux is safe from litigation, yet the users of linux are quite happy to violate terms of service when it suits them.
has anyone read the ToS for youtube? you should pay attention to 4.C
I’m pretty sure if X.org or the Kernel found themselves in violation of a licence or patent
they’d implement a work around to avoid it.
(and they have)
Why do users feel they can play god about such things?
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Be quiet Daniel, you are just trolling
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to ~,
No it’s not like damnvid,
It’s a bit better, it scans an html file for videos and doesn’t require the vid’s URL
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or you could do it raw without downloading or compiling anything
simply do
lsof -p $(ps -ef | grep chrome | grep flash | awk ‘{ print $3 }’) | grep deleted | grep Chrome
from a terminal and keep an eye out for the file size thats changing.
example output
chrome 14769 cthompson 64u REG 0,16 12 14524878 /dev/shm/.com.google.Chrome.bgIhSu (deleted)
once you get it you copy /proc/<>/fd/<> to wherever you want
** note that you need to get it after it finishes streaming **
Then simply enjoy
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Christopher Reply:
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:59 pm
My sincere apologies: the above should have been
lsof -p $(ps -ef | grep -i chrome | grep flash | awk ‘{ print $2 }’) | grep Flash
which returns only one line, rather then multiples.
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