Spake Mario Lombardo on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 04:41PM +0200:
> Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>> Spake Mario Lombardo on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 03:09PM +0200:
>>
>>> Dylan William Hardison wrote:
>>>
>>>> Spake Mario Lombardo on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:12PM +0200:
>>>>
>>>>> What are people using for video downloaders (not just works with
>>>>> YouTube) with Firefox? I want something opensource, free, and
>>>>> runs on
>>>> youtube-dl: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
>>>>
>>>> This only works with youtube; I believe there are other scripts for
>>>> google video, etc. Some flash-video-using sites don't need a script, as
>>>> they provide a link to the .flv.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That won't work since I'd have to surf to the video page with a
>>> qualified browser and then copy the link to the script.
>>>
>>
>> w3m or lynx would work as well.
>>
>>
> I'm aware of w3m, lynx, elinks, dillo, etc. They are lovely browsers,
> and their speed is impeccable. However, my intent is to use it for
> Firefox. Your needs may differ.
I was commenting on the "That won't work since I'd have to surf to the
video page with a qualified browser". I gave examples of
unqualified-for-youtube browsers that nevertheless are compatible with
youtube-dl.
Another solution would be to hack something together using greasemonkey:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/download-youtube-video-with-greasemonkey-script.html
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