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Commands tagged youtube

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Terminal - Commands tagged youtube - 17 results
lsof -n -P|grep FlashXX|awk '{ print "/proc/" $2 "/fd/" substr($4, 1, length($4)-1) }'|while read f;do newname=$(exiftool -FileModifyDate -FileType -t -d %Y%m%d%H%M%S $f|cut -f2|tr '\n' '.'|sed 's/\.$//');echo "$f -> $newname";cp $f ~/Vids/$newname;done
2012-02-25 01:49:45
User: mhs
Functions: awk cp cut echo grep read sed tr
Tags: youtube flash flv exiftool tmpfs
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Keep a copy of the raw Youtube FLV,MP4,etc stored in /tmp/

Certain Flash video players (e.g. Youtube) write their video streams to disk in /tmp/ , but the files are unlinked. i.e. the player creates the file and then immediately deletes the filename (unlinking files in this way makes it hard to find them, and/or ensures their cleanup if the browser or plugin should crash etc.) But as long as the flash plugin's process runs, a file descriptor remains in its /proc/ hierarchy, from which we (and the player) still have access to the file. The method above worked nicely for me when I had 50 tabs open with Youtube videos and didn't want to have to re-download them all with some tool.

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youtube-dl -o bun.flv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPLcQhXpCc; mplayer bun.flv -ss 03:16 -endpos 5 -vo jpeg:outdir=bun:quality=100:smooth=30:progressive -vf scale=320:240 -nosound; convert -delay 4 -loop 0 bun/*.jpg bun.gif
2012-01-05 17:53:22
User: joeyliechty
Tags: mplayer youtube convert gif
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Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

Creates a better looking gif than the original post via imagemagick processing high quality jpgs, rather than converting directly to gif from the video itself.

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youtube-dl -t --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 YOUTUBE_URL_HERE
2011-11-15 20:11:20
User: menachem
Tags: youtube mp3
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Convert Youtube videos to MP3

youtube-dl has this functionality built in. If you're running an older version of youtube-dl, you can update it using `youtube-dl -U` (although if you have an older version, it probably doesn't download youtube videos anyway.)

youtube-dl --help will show you other options that may come in useful.

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url="put_url_here";audio=$(youtube-dl -s -e $url);wget -q -O - `youtube-dl -g $url`| ffmpeg -i - -f mp3 -vn -acodec libmp3lame - > "$audio.mp3"
2011-11-15 19:09:52
User: o0110o
Functions: wget
Tags: youtube mp3
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Convert Youtube videos to MP3

Make your own MP3s from Youtube videos.

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mplayer -fs -cookies -cookies-file /tmp/cookie.txt $(youtube-dl -g --cookies /tmp/cookie.txt "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTOSvEX-YeY")
2011-07-19 23:53:01
User: davro
Tags: bash mplayer youtube streaming flash
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Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.
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yt-pl2mp3() {umph -m 50 $1 | cclive -f mp4_720p; IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b"); for track in $(ls | grep mp4 | awk '{print $0}' | sed -e 's/\.mp4//'); do (ffmpeg -i $track.mp4 -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 320 -f mp3 $track.mp3); done; rm -f *.mp4}
2011-03-20 14:43:20
User: sattellite
Functions: awk echo grep ls rm sed
Tags: youtube mp3 convert download playlist
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Download YouTube music playlist and convert it to mp3 files

umph is parsing video links from Youtube playlists ( http://code.google.com/p/umph/ )

cclive is downloading videos from Youtube ( http://cclive.sourceforge.net/ )

Example:

yt-pl2mp3 7AB74822FE7D03E8
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Command in description (Your command is too long - please keep it to less than 255 characters)
2011-02-03 08:25:42
User: __
Functions: command less
Tags: ffmpeg sed youtube wget grep curl mp3 seq youtube-dl
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YouTube Convert and Download All User's Videos to MP3s on the fly
yt2mp3(){ for j in `seq 1 301`;do i=`curl -s gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/$1/uploads\?start-index=$j\&max-results=1|grep -o "watch[^&]*"`;ffmpeg -i `wget youtube.com/$i -qO-|grep -o 'url_map"[^,]*'|sed -n '1{s_.*|__;s_\\\__g;p}'` -vn -ab 128k "`youtube-dl -e ${i#*=}`.mp3";done;}

squeezed the monster (and nifty ☺) command from 7776 from 531 characters to 284 characters, but I don't see a way to get it down to 255. This is definitely a kludge!

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yt () mplayer -fs -quiet $(youtube-dl -g "$1")
2010-09-29 18:48:19
User: elfreak
Tags: mplayer youtube function
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Stream YouTube URL directly to MPlayer

A function for streaming youtube to mplayer.

The option "-g" for youtube-dl tells it to output the direct video URL, instead of downloading the video.

"-fs" tells MPlayer to go FullScreen, and "-quit" makes it less verbose.

Requires: youdube-dl ( http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/ )

(Tested in zsh)

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ID=52DnUo6wJto;mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?&video_id=$ID$(wget -qO - 'http://youtube.com/watch?v='$ID | perl -ne 'print $1."&asv=" if /^.*(&t=.*?)&.*$/; print "&fmt=".$1 if /^.*&fmt_map=(22).*$/')")
2010-09-17 17:06:55
User: lslah
Functions: echo
Tags: bash mplayer youtube streaming flash
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Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

Streams youtube video with v=ID directly into the mplayer.

If exists, it uses the HD-quality stream.

If you don't want to watch it in HD-quality, you can use the shorter form:

ID=52DnUo6wJto; mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?&video_id=$ID$(wget -qO - 'http://youtube.com/watch?v='$ID | perl -ne 'print $1."&asv=" if /^.*(&t=.*?)&.*$/')")
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url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5bYDhZBFLA; youtube-dl -b $url; mplayer $(ls ${url##*=}*| tail -n1) -ss 00:57 -endpos 10 -vo gif89a:fps=5:output=output.gif -vf scale=400:300 -nosound
2010-07-18 02:11:39
User: zed
Functions: ls tail
Tags: mplayer youtube gif
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Create an animated gif from a Youtube video

requires "youtube-dl" -- sure you can do this with wget and some more obscurity but why waste your time when this great tool is available?

the guts consist of mplayer converting a video to a gif -- study this command and read the man page for more information

mplayer video.flv -ss 00:23 -endpos 6 -vo gif89a:fps=5:output=output.gif -vf scale=400:300 -nosound

generates a 6 second gif starting at 23 seconds of play time at 5 fps and a scale of 400x300

start time (-ss)/end time (-endpos) formats: 00:00:00.000

end time should be relative to start time, not absolute. i.e. -endpos 5 == seconds after 0:42 = 0:47 end point

play with fps and scale for lower gif sizes

the subshell is a solution for the -b flag on youtube-dl which downloads the best quality video, sometimes, which can be various video formats $(ls ${url##*=}*| tail -n1)

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url="[Youtube URL]"; echo $(curl ${url%&*} 2>&1 | grep -iA2 '<title>' | grep '-') | sed 's/^- //'
2010-04-29 02:03:36
User: rkulla
Functions: echo grep sed
Tags: youtube curl html title POSIX
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Grab just the title of a youtube video

There's another version on here that uses GET but some people don't have lwp-request, so here's an alternative. It's also a little shorter and should work with most youtube URLs since it truncates at the first &

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youtitle(){ GET $1 | grep document.title | sed "s;^.*document.title = '\(.*\)'.*$;\1;"; };
2010-04-03 09:49:05
User: manukaj
Functions: grep sed
Tags: youtube
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Get the title of a youtube video
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mencoder -sub subs.ssa -utf8 -subfont-text-scale 4 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr=128 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -ffourcc xvid -o output.avi input.flv
2009-09-12 09:24:24
User: ivalladt
Tags: video mencoder youtube mp3 avi flv lame divx mpeg4 utf8 subtitles
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FLV to AVI with subtitles and forcing audio sync using mencoder

Gives MPEG-4/DivX output video file ready for uploading to YouTube from FLV file downloaded from the site and your own subtitle file UTF-8 encoded. No resizing needed. (?)

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mencoder -of avi -ovc lavc movie.avi -o movie2.avi; ffmpeg -i movie2.avi -r 12 -b 100 movie.flv
2009-08-28 11:05:21
User: dcabanis
Tags: video ffmpeg mencoder youtube codec
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Convert a VMWare screencast into a flv file

First, we convert the VMware avi (VMnc format) to the Microsoft avi format. Next, we convert the Microsoft avi format to FLV format.

You can play around with the -r switch (rate per second) and the -b switch (bitrate). But, if those get larger, so does your FLV file.

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y=http://www.youtube.com;for i in $(curl -s $f|grep -o "url='$y/watch?v=[^']*'");do d=$(echo $i|sed "s|url\='$y/watch?v=\(.*\)&.*'|\1|");wget -O $d.flv "$y/get_video.php?video_id=$d&t=$(curl -s "$y/watch?v=$d"|sed -n 's/.* "t": "\([^"]*\)",.*/\1/p')";done
2009-08-22 21:31:29
User: matthewbauer
Functions: echo grep sed
Tags: youtube download playlist
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Download Youtube Playlist

This will download a Youtube playlist and mostly anything http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Video_Feeds

The files will be saved by $id.flv

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id="dMH0bHeiRNg";mplayer -fs http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=$id\&t=$(curl -s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id | sed -n 's/.*, "t": "\([^"]*\)", .*/\1/p')
2009-08-13 14:16:01
User: matthewbauer
Functions: id sed
Tags: bash mplayer youtube streaming flash
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Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer

The original doesn't work for me - but this does. I'm guessing that Youtube updated the video page so the original doesn't work.

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i="8uyxVmdaJ-w";mplayer -fs $(curl -s "http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=$i" | echo -e $(sed 's/%/\\x/g;s/.*\(v[0-9]\.lscache.*\)/http:\/\/\1/g') | grep -oP '^[^|,]*')
2009-03-09 03:57:44
User: lrvick
Functions: echo grep sed
Tags: bash mplayer youtube streaming flash
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Stream YouTube URL directly to mplayer.

This is the result of a several week venture without X. I found myself totally happy without X (and by extension without flash) and was able to do just about anything but watch YouTube videos... so this a the solution I came up with for that. I am sure this can be done better but this does indeed work... and tends to work far better than YouTube's ghetto proprietary flash player ;-)

Replace $i with any YouTube ID you want and this will scrape the site for the _real_ URL to the full quality .FLV file on Youtube's server and will then will hand that over to mplayer (or vlc or whatever you want) to be streamed.

In some browsers you can replace $i with just a % or put this in a shell script so all YouTube IDs can be handed directly off to your media player of choice for true streaming without the need for Flash or a downloader like clive. (I do however fully recommend clive if you wish to archive videos instead of streaming them)

If any interest is shown I would be more than happy to provide similar commands for other sites. Most streaming flash players use similar logic to YouTube.

Edit: 05/03/2011 -

Updated line to work with current YouTube. It could be a lot prettier but I will probably follow up with another update when I figure out how to get rid of that pesky Grep. Sed should take that syntax... but it doesn't.

Original (no longer working) command:

mplayer -fs $(echo "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?$(curl -s $youtube_url | sed -n "/watch_fullscreen/s;.*\(video_id.\+\)&title.*;\1;p")")

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