downloading video from http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=...

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Wednesday, February 13, 2008 a las 03:43:35PM +0000, Vince Hoffman escribió:

> Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there any command line tool in FreeBSD for downloading a video from a
> > URL like http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928
> > in the way youtube-dl, for example, does? Thx in advance
> > 
> > 	matthias
> 
> 
> Umm youtube-dl is a command line tool for doing this (and its in ports
> www/youtube_dl) theres also www/metacafe_dl for metacafe.
> 
> Did you mean something different?

$ youtube-dl 'http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7540047147367608928'
Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a bug.
$

i.e. youtube-dl is for YouTube (and works for me), but not for Google

thx anyway

	matthias

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