Comments on: Youtube Ripping: Reloaded

By: Youtube Ripper: Collector’s Edition « Niklas Lindblad

Youtube Ripper: Collector’s Edition « Niklas Lindblad — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:39:47 +0000

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By: Kz

Kz — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:32:00 +0000

Hi there,

I have downloaded the script but cant seem to open the readme or todo files; perhapes you should make this into notepad or something everyone has…….

By: nlindblad

nlindblad — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:41:08 +0000

The files are in plain-text. Rename them to README.txt and TODO.txt if Notepad can’t open them.

By: James Attard

James Attard — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:56:30 +0000

There was a slight bug in the script - as of today at least, it didn’t work:

replace line 40 with:
ereg(’/player2.swf\?hl=en&video_id=.*’,$match,$id);

and line 42 with:
$unique_id = preg_replace(”/\/player2.swf\?hl=en&video_id=/”,”,$str);

I have one question though - although I loved your script I still cannot understand how did you arrive that youtube calls videos through the http://www.youtube.com/get_video - i didn’t manage to find that string with wget. Did you use some sniffer to arrive to that conclusion??

Thanks !

By: Theo

Theo — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:23:25 +0000

Great script, however as of today as least the page switching bit doesn’t work (it will only download from page one). To fix:

replace line 53 with:
$matches = preg_grep(”/&p=r&page=[0-9]*/”,$html);

By: Theo

Theo — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 19:25:37 +0000

Hmmm, not sure how to escape special commands in Wordpress so the code above won’t work. Basically you need to replace the &’s with “& amp;” (omitting the spaces)

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:51:38 +0000

Try &

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:53:31 +0000

Err.. & :S

By: school teacher

school teacher — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:18:56 +0000

wartornhols@yahoo.co.uk

I’m only a thick drama teacher who can’t understand scripts! not on the computer anyway. I need to rip a piece from youtube to shiow my kids, as youtube is banned in schools. I need the following youtube vid as any video file to embed elsewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjd-xkR9mxw

could anyone rip this for me and email me the result?
cheers.
I’m trying to learn

By: Raphael diSanto

Raphael diSanto — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:05:50 +0000

YouTube just changed the format of their HTML in their individual video pages. You can’t search for swfobject anymore to find the unique video ID unless you can fool the javascript into thinking you have a valid Flash player. However, the unique video ID can be found by regexp-ing for /watch_fullscreen.+?”/