Download Youtube video with wget!

wget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ -qO- | sed -n "/fmt_url_map/{s/[\'\"\|]/\n/g;p}" | sed -n '/^fmt_url_map/,/videoplayback/p' | sed -e :a -e '$q;N;5,$D;ba' | tr -d '\n' | sed -e 's/\(.*\),\(.\)\{1,3\}/\1/' | wget -i - -O surprise.flv
Nothing special required, just wget, sed & tr!
Sample Output 
Resolving v3.lscache3.c.youtube.com... 74.125.170.46
Connecting to v3.lscache3.c.youtube.com|74.125.170.46|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 25120289 (24M) [video/x-flv]
Saving to: `surprise.flv'

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By: Eno
2011-01-25 04:19:06
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What Others Think

oops! it's not working for me. I'm getting this error: sed: 1: "/fmt_url_map/{s/[\'"\|] ...": extra characters at the end of p command No URLs found in -.
kaartz · 781 weeks and 5 days ago
I'm having the same problem with kaartz... I'm running OS X with the wget being ported to OS X.
TCorbin · 781 weeks ago
Weird, it's working fine on GNU/Linux, I'll check that tomorrow on OSX ;)
Eno · 781 weeks ago
cool
ZhaoZijie · 689 weeks ago
No working : No URLs found in -. :'( i'm looking for this since 1 years :'(
kaldoran · 644 weeks ago

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