Get YouTube Video (improved)

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Description:

Usage:
Right-click onto a link to a YouTube video or at the background of the YouTube site showing the video and choose action -> Download YouTube Video -> ...


About:
I made some modifications to the original YouTube Service Menu. It didn't work for me, so I looked at the source. I added a different method to guess the video_id and I added additional parameters to the query string to download the video.

With this Konqueror/KDE service menu it is possible to download a YouTube video
by right clicking a link to the video and choosing "Download YouTube Video" from the
actions menu.

For more details see:
http://bitbucket.org/panzi/youtube-service-menu/wiki/Home

See also the original version(s) of this script:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=37509
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=41432

Note:
I don't use this script myself anymore because I now use this userscript (which I also made):
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98782

This means this script might not be maintained in the future.
Last changelog:

8 years ago

version 1.12a:
FIX: encoding problems

version 1.12:
NEW: chose format from menu with --format=ask.
NEW: --list option for Python script.
FIX: typos that made the script crash

version 1.11b:
FIX: Crash introduced in last version.

version 1.11a:
Updated greek translation. Thanks to Dimitrios Glentadakis.

version 1.11:
FIX: Extraction of video information. Now a different data extraction strategy
reading the flashvars of embed is used. Hopefully this is more stable.

version 1.10a:
ADD: Greek translation, thanks to Dimitrios Glentadakis (dglent)

version 1.10:
FIX: Extraction of video information. Now a different data extraction strategy
reading the flashvars of embed is used. Hopefully this is more stable.
DEP: New dependency to lxml: http://lxml.de/
NEW: Added video format 38: High Definition 3072p (mp4)

For more see:
http://bitbucket.org/panzi/youtube-service-menu/src/tip/Changelog

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panzi

12 years ago

Urgh. It does. Why the hell does it contain that? Hmpf. Have to check that out.

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nisavid

12 years ago

Will see KDE4 support in the near future? Please? Especially since flash still doesn't work in Konqueror 4.0.2.

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panzi

12 years ago

When I will have KDE4 I will port it to KDE4. But is porting really necessary? I mean, is there really something different about how konqueror handles .desktop files in KDE4? I thought thats an freedesktop.org standard (well, with KDE extensions). I will install KDE4.1 when it's released. I don't install 4.0.x.

Flash is not working for you? It works for me (Firefox and Konqueror). I use Fedora 8, 32bit installation, with the adobe-linux-i386 repository, see:
http://fedorasolved.org/browser-solutions/flash/?searchterm=flash

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KevinKofler

12 years ago

The KDE 4 servicemenu format is slightly different and they're in a different directory.

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panzi

12 years ago

I see. I will adapt it when I will use KDE 4.

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uaelee

12 years ago

Why u guys are talking a language I don’t understand?!
Where should I write/install this script in order to get “download video” in my right click options?

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panzi

12 years ago

See the install script:
install get_yt_video.py /usr/bin/
install get_yt_video.desktop /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
mkdir -p /usr/share/get_yt_video/
find l10n -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec cp -r {} /usr/share/get_yt_video/ \;

If your KDE is not installed under the /usr prefix you have to adapt those paths.

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Picander

12 years ago

I had to update the .py to get this working again.

just add:

if m is None:
m = re.search("watch_fullscreen\\?fs=1&(?P<vid_query>.*?)&title=(?P<name>.*)';\n", data)


right after:

m = re.search("watch_fullscreen\\?(?P<vid_query>.*?)&fs=1&title=(?P<name>.*)';\n", data)

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panzi

12 years ago

I just removed the &fs=1 and it seems to work perfectly. But thanks. :)

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JmOnKeY

13 years ago

All worked really well for me THANKYOU,
one thing I had to do for KDE3 on Opensuse 10.3:
Using the Shell install method I had to change /usr/share/apps/konquerer to /opt/kde3/share/apps/konquerer obviously because kde3 is in /opt not /usr/share etc. I hear that kde 4 has gone back to the standard /usr/share etc in Opensuse 10.3.

worked so well, cheers

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appleman

12 years ago

Hi,

Instead of hard-wired "/usr" you can use >kde-config --prefix< surrounded with backticks which should return the right prefix path.

Replace the specific line 4 with these one:

install get_yt_video.desktop `kde-config --prefix`/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

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kmare

13 years ago

i get this error when trying to download a video from youtube (yes, i'm logged in).
'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

any help would be greatly appreciated.

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panzi

13 years ago

Sons like one of my regular expressions are no longer working. :/
Is the line number where this happens mentioned?

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panzi

13 years ago

I created deb package (youtube-servicemenu_1.3e-1_i386.deb) with Kubuntu 7.10 with the command:
sudo checkinstall ./install.sh

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Gogast

13 years ago

I can't find this menu anywhere...

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m1k0

13 years ago

How to change parameters for encoding?
I want encode to mobile phone format - > .3gpp

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GameMage

13 years ago

This package's architecture really should be set as all. I have to force install it on my system (amd64).

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panzi

13 years ago

Sorry. Forgot to set the architecture. Fixed now.

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GameMage

13 years ago

Thanks!

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stefan99

13 years ago

Command line install worked.

But getting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8&v3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
failed.
Popup "No video information found on the video's Page" but reporting link does not work.

Kind regards

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panzi

13 years ago

It works for me. Actually I downloaded the same video days/weeks ago. ;)

Maybe you have to be logged in to view this video? Can't think why. But try to login into youtube in konqueror. My script uses konquerors cookies (kcookiechar). ;)

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jel

13 years ago

Download links are broken

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premierSullivan

13 years ago

There seems to be no method to download .deb files in kubuntu using konqueror. Has anyone else had this issue?

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Pagan

13 years ago

I got this to install and work, but I notice a couple of things. First, Kaffeine doesn't play back .flv files very well (very jumpy), but Mplayer plays nicely. Second, mencoder only converted part of the .flv to .mpg and ffmpeg will only output a zero-length file and a long list of errors.

Nice, but still needs work.

Joe

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panzi

13 years ago

Well, the thing is I don't use the conversion capabilities. They where built into the original script so I didn't remove them. I never tested them, because I don't need them. Mplayer plays most .flv videos, but for some reason not all. ffplay plays all, but it's a very limited player (only a ffmpeg-player-test actually). Since 0.85 VLC plays .flv, too. But same as mplayer not all.

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8 years ago

version 1.12a:
FIX: encoding problems

version 1.12:
NEW: chose format from menu with --format=ask.
NEW: --list option for Python script.
FIX: typos that made the script crash

version 1.11b:
FIX: Crash introduced in last version.

version 1.11a:
Updated greek translation. Thanks to Dimitrios Glentadakis.

version 1.11:
FIX: Extraction of video information. Now a different data extraction strategy
reading the flashvars of embed is used. Hopefully this is more stable.

version 1.10a:
ADD: Greek translation, thanks to Dimitrios Glentadakis (dglent)

version 1.10:
FIX: Extraction of video information. Now a different data extraction strategy
reading the flashvars of embed is used. Hopefully this is more stable.
DEP: New dependency to lxml: http://lxml.de/
NEW: Added video format 38: High Definition 3072p (mp4)

For more see:
http://bitbucket.org/panzi/youtube-service-menu/src/tip/Changelog

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