clive
About
clive is an open source command line tool to extract videos
and to circumvent the need to use Adobe Flash in order to view
user-generated content available on video-sharing websites.
Supported hosts
- Youtube
- GoogleVideo
- Dailymotion
- Metacafe
- Guba
- Sevenload
- Myvideo
Features
- BSD/Linux/UNIX-like OSes
- Accepts multiple URLs: via command line or otherwise
- HTTP features (proxy, throttle, user-agent)
- UNIX pipes and stdin redirects
- Subsequent video re-encoding and playing
- Clipboard integration
- Video quality support (high/low, varies per host)
- URL caching with cache browser
- Complete user-control over output filename
- Flagged content workarounds (Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe)
- Continue partially downloaded video files
- (planned) Wider host support
Project & Feedback
The clive project is hosted by
gna and
sf serves
as a secondary download facility for the project. If you are looking
to contribute or just return feedback, please see the
contribute page.
License
Copyright © 2007-2008 Toni Gündogdu.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of
clive under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version. You should have received a copy of of the General
Public License along with this program. If not, see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
