Downloading YouTube FLVs

[Gravious]

I finished the project in the meantime.

I made a new thread for it here

Old post:

Spoiler:

Hello everyone,

Since 'youtube-mp3.org' stopped working I got the idea to create a program that downloaded the FLV file from the youtube host. It worked for about a month and then I think YouTube decided to change something in the accessibilty of those files.

Basically what I did was getting the video HTML document, then splitting it until I got the path to the FLV video, but that doesn't seem to work anymore and I was wondering if anyone DOES know how to get around this.

How I did it
If you go to a random video like this: Kawasaki Ninja Record Nürburgring 7'50": BEST RACE MOTORCYCLE EVER - YouTube and view the source of the page, you search for "var swf" and inside of that you should find this: "url_encoded_fmt_stream_map". I decoded that and downloaded it and I had the FLV file, but now when I try to access the URL it gives me a Error 403: Forbidden

The result:

Spoiler:

http://o-o---preferred---sn-5hn7sner...&quality=hd720

Does anyone have a way around it? And no, I don't want to use websites that offer these services.

[MentaL]

[Ron]

Youtube-mp3.org is working fine for me.

[Gravious]

Youtube-mp3.org is working fine for me.

Try on any popular song and it won't work.

[jMerliN]

Use HTML5.

[Gravious]

Use HTML5.

What exactly are you aiming at?

[TimeBomb]

Hello everyone,

Since 'youtube-mp3.org' stopped working I got the idea to create a program that downloaded the FLV file from the youtube host. It worked for about a month and then I think YouTube decided to change something in the accessibilty of those files.

Basically what I did was getting the video HTML document, then splitting it until I got the path to the FLV video, but that doesn't seem to work anymore and I was wondering if anyone DOES know how to get around this.

How I did it
If you go to a random video like this: Kawasaki Ninja Record Nürburgring 7'50": BEST RACE MOTORCYCLE EVER - YouTube and view the source of the page, you search for "var swf" and inside of that you should find this: "url_encoded_fmt_stream_map". I decoded that and downloaded it and I had the FLV file, but now when I try to access the URL it gives me a Error 403: Forbidden

The result:

Spoiler:

http://o-o---preferred---sn-5hn7sner...&quality=hd720

Does anyone have a way around it? And no, I don't want to use websites that offer these services.

I don't know if this site still works or will do exactly what you want it to do, but it's what I've used in the past: KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more!

[jMerliN]

What exactly are you aiming at?

There are experimental HTML5 features in Chrome and Firefox that allow for manipulation of <video> object streamed data, and you can stream them into local downloads. So you can use YouTube's HTML5 support to just save the playing video to disk with a simple script.

[Gravious]

I don't know if this site still works or will do exactly what you want it to do, but it's what I've used in the past: KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm and more!

"Does anyone have a way around it? And no, I don't want to use websites that offer these services. "
They're also using a Java Applet on that site. How does that exactly work? It has to get the URL from somewhere too.

There are experimental HTML5 features in Chrome and Firefox that allow for manipulation of <video> object streamed data, and you can stream them into local downloads. So you can use YouTube's HTML5 support to just save the playing video to disk with a simple script.

That would be a good idea. But how would I get that to show up on the HTML?

Edit: Just found this: http://www.youtube.com/html5 I'll see what I can do with it.
Edit 2: It doesn't seem to be playing ANY video in the new HTML5 video, am I the only one experiencing this?

[George SS]

If you want to personally download videos from YouTube , i recomend "Download Helper" firefox plugin , if you want to make a website that does that ... well don't. If you want a program for it , try Internet Download Manager: the fastest download accelerator , the trial works for 30 days without restrictions and downloads any video from anywhere with great speed.If you want to make a site that takes youtube videos and converts them to mp3 , also don't , because you need a special host that has ffmpeg plugin installed , also you need unlimited bandwidth , because each time someone converts a video , it actually downloads it to the server , converts it , and servs it for the client to download.

[Gravious]

If you want to personally download videos from YouTube , i recomend "Download Helper" firefox plugin , if you want to make a website that does that ... well don't. If you want a program for it , try Internet Download Manager: the fastest download accelerator , the trial works for 30 days without restrictions and downloads any video from anywhere with great speed.If you want to make a site that takes youtube videos and converts them to mp3 , also don't , because you need a special host that has ffmpeg plugin installed , also you need unlimited bandwidth , because each time someone converts a video , it actually downloads it to the server , converts it , and servs it for the client to download.

Personally, but I want to make an automated program that does it. But since YouTube changed the way it gets the FLV file from their hosts the program base I had was not working anymore.

Just with plain code, no plugins for other programs or whatsoever. Any ideas still? I really can't find anything recent on Google

[Shibi]

Pfft use YouTube to MP3 Converter - Fast, Free - ListenToYouTube.com

[Gravious]

Pfft use YouTube to MP3 Converter - Fast, Free - ListenToYouTube.com

Damnit Tyrone. Read the thread!

[Caustik]

This is a manual way of going about it although it may help (found it while googling)
Simple Way to Download YouTube HTML5 Videos | Saigonist - Expat Living in Vietnam

[Gravious]

This is a manual way of going about it although it may help (found it while googling)
Simple Way to Download YouTube HTML5 Videos | Saigonist - Expat Living in Vietnam

"Submitted by tomo on November 24, 2010 - 3:52am". Outdated.

[Shibi]

Damnit Tyrone. Read the thread!

Well sorry..