clive

clive is a video extraction tool for user-uploaded video hosts such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion, Guba and Metacafe. It can be chained with 3rd party tools for subsequent video re-encoding and playing and playing.

Features

• Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)
• Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, Guba and Metacafe
• Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting
• Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override
• Print video details (URL, filename, etc.) to stdout
• High/low-quality support where applicable (e.g. Youtube)
• Chaining with a 3rd party player software for playing
• URL caching; re-fetch video page only when necessary
• No-extraction support; do not actually any videos
• Chaining with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding
• Gzip compressed video page data transfers
• Integration with X clipboard (with xclip)
• Overridable output filename formatting
• RSS/Atom parsing with video selection interface
• Overridable video page title parsing
• Continue partially downloaded files*
• Metacafe family-filter override
• Dailymotion log-in support
• Configuration file support
• Recall last URL batch
• Supports UNIX pipes
• URL batch support

*=excluding Youtube/FLV and GoogleVideo/FLV

The project page, including SVN, website, downloads and trackers are hosted by gna.

Bugs should be reported to the clive bug tracking system.

• Information about your system. For instance:
  • What operating system and version
  • What Python version
  • Anything else you think is relevant
• How to reproduce the bug
• If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the crash occurred
• Further information such as the back trace if possible

For sending feedback, questions and feature requests, please use the support tracker.

Copyright © 2007-2008 Toni Gündogdu.

clive comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of clive under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.