clive is an amazing command line video extraction tool for user-uploaded video hosts such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba, Metacafe and Sevenload. It can be chained with 3rd party tools for subsequent video re-encoding and and playing. Features
- Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)
- Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, Guba, Metacafe and Sevenload
- Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting
- Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override
- High/low-quality support where applicable (e.g. Youtube)
- Chain with a 3rd party player software for playing
- URL caching; re-fetch video page only if necessary
- Chain with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding
- Gzip compressed video page data transfers
- Scan and extract embedded videos
Some more features:
- Integration with X clipboard (xclip)
- Overridable output filename formatting
- Parse and extract videos from RSS/Atom feeds
- Overridable video page title parsing
- Continue partially downloaded files*
- Automatic Metacafe family-filter override
- Compatible with UNIX pipes
- Dailymotion log-in support
- Configuration file support
- Recall last URL batch
- Multi-URL (batch) support
*=excluding Youtube/FLV and GoogleVideo/FLV To Install:
sudo apt-get install clive
Example:
clivehttp://in.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LToULvLhE&feature=dir
Usage: clive [options] URLs
Type clive –help for other options that could be used along with clive.
