Videoob
Videoob is a console application able to search for videos on supported websites and to get direct URLs for videos, download them or play them.
It supports the following websites:
Get Videoob
This application is part of Weboob. To install it, please read this page.
Usage
You can run Videoob without any parameter to get an interactive prompt, or specify a command to run it directly and exit just after.
In this page we will use the interactive mode:
$ videoob Welcome to videoob Copyright(C) 2010-2012 The Weboob Team This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License. Type "help" to display available commands. Loaded backends: videoob>
Use the help command to see what are the available commands.
For more information about common options of console applications, read this documentation.
The first time you launch videoob, it will ask you what backends you want to add and configure.
You can also use the backends command to manage them, and to enable only specific backends.
Looking for a video
Usage:
videoob> search PATTERN
Example:
videoob> search coluche flics
Search pattern: coluche flics
* (1) Coluche - Les Flics (youtube)
0:07:57
* (2) Coluche Intégral CD 1 - 12 / Le flic (youtube)
0:08:10
* (3) Coluche le flic (youtube)
0:11:33
* (4) COLUCHE L'INTEGRAL - Le flic.mov (youtube)
0:08:10
* (5) Coluche - C'est l'histoire d'un mec (youtube)
0:10:35
* (6) Beaucoup de flics pour rien.wmv (youtube)
0:06:35
* (7) Pinot simple flic pour Cortex - Zen for Z'anes (youtube)
0:04:10
* (8) A 2 pas du Perih - Sinik (youtube)
0:02:58
videoob>
Get information about a video
Usage:
videoob> info <# or ID or URL>
For example, you can use the number shown in the previous search result:
videoob> info 1 id: 6Cvj6NRpTXo@youtube title: Coluche - Les Flics url: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=6Cvj6NRpTXo&t=vjVQa1PpcFPjKzpoPFHRI3oAtjzNxmC5NkNYPQ2R6jg%3D&eurl=&el=&ps=&asv=&fmt=18 author: Melaaz duration: 0:07:57 thumbnail: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/6Cvj6NRpTXo/2.jpg nsfw: False
You can also use it in this way:
videoob> info "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXb8V_8l41w"
videoob> info JXb8V_8l41w@youtube
Play a video
You can also play a video by using the command play instead of info:
videoob> play 1 Invoking "mplayer http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=6Cvj6NRpTXo&t=vjVQa1PpcFPjKzpoPFHRI3oAtjzNxmC5NkNYPQ2R6jg%3D&eurl=&el=&ps=&asv=&fmt=18". [...] videoob>
Download a video
If you want to download a video, just use the download command:
videoob> download 1 [...]
It’s possible to provide the destination filename of the video:
$ videoob download 9892834@dailymotion video.mp4 --2011-03-21 15:47:36-- http://www.dailymotion.com/cdn/H264-512x384/video/x5w1cy_bassist_music.mp4?auth=1300891656-7e55974c5de78f52843324636480ff96 Resolving www.dailymotion.com... 195.8.215.137, 195.8.215.138, 195.8.215.136 Connecting to www.dailymotion.com|195.8.215.137|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://proxy-61.dailymotion.com/video/438/298/9892834_mp4_h264_aac.mp4?auth=1300726056-32528c09733568744a9010672425da55&cache=0 [following] --2011-03-21 15:47:36-- http://proxy-61.dailymotion.com/video/438/298/9892834_mp4_h264_aac.mp4?auth=1300726056-32528c09733568744a9010672425da55&cache=0 Resolving proxy-61.dailymotion.com... 195.8.214.61 Connecting to proxy-61.dailymotion.com|195.8.214.61|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 764225 (746K) [video/mp4] Saving to: “video.mp4” 100%[====================================================================>] 764,225 2.45M/s in 0.3s 2011-03-21 15:47:36 (2.45 MB/s) - “video.mp4” saved [764225/764225]
Use cases
Tip for rxvt-unicode users
You can use this config lines to make rxvt-unicode launch urls in videoob instead of your browser:
urxvt.matcher.pattern.1: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?youtube\\.com/watch\\?v=([^&]*) urxvt.matcher.launcher.1: videoob play $1@youtube urxvt.matcher.pattern.2: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?youporn\\.com/watch/([^/]*) urxvt.matcher.launcher.2: videoob play $1@youporn urxvt.matcher.pattern.3: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?canalplus.fr/.*vid=([^&]*) urxvt.matcher.launcher.3: videoob play $1@canalplus urxvt.matcher.pattern.4: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?videos\\.arte\\.tv/.*/([^.]*)\\.html urxvt.matcher.launcher.4: videoob play $1@arte urxvt.matcher.pattern.5: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?ina.fr/(.*)/video/(.*)\\.html urxvt.matcher.launcher.5: videoob play $1\/$2@ina urxvt.matcher.pattern.6: (?:http://)?(?:www\\.)?youjizz\\.com/.*/([^.]*)\\.html urxvt.matcher.launcher.6: videoob play $1@youjizz