const_video_url_str = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s'
const_video_url_re = re.compile(r'^((?:http://)?(?:\w+\.)?youtube\.com/(?:v/|(?:watch(?:\.php)?)?\?(?:.+&)?v=))?([0-9A-Za-z_-]+)(?(1)[&/].*)?$')
+const_video_url_best_quality_suffix='&fmt=18'
const_login_url_str = 'http://www.youtube.com/login?next=/watch%%3Fv%%3D%s'
const_login_post_str = 'current_form=loginForm&next=%%2Fwatch%%3Fv%%3D%s&username=%s&password=%s&action_login=Log+In'
const_age_url_str = 'http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%%3Fv%%3D%s'
sys.exit('\n')
# Wrapper to create custom requests with typical headers
-def request_create(url, data=None):
+def request_create(url, extra_headers, post_data):
retval = urllib2.Request(url)
- if data is not None:
- retval.add_data(data)
+ if post_data is not None:
+ retval.add_data(post_data)
# Try to mimic Firefox, at least a little bit
retval.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11')
retval.add_header('Accept-Charset', 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7')
retval.add_header('Accept', 'text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5')
retval.add_header('Accept-Language', 'en-us,en;q=0.5')
+ if extra_headers is not None:
+ for header in extra_headers:
+ retval.add_header(header[0], header[1])
return retval
# Perform a request, process headers and return response
-def perform_request(url, data=None):
- request = request_create(url, data)
+def perform_request(url, headers=None, data=None):
+ request = request_create(url, headers, data)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
return response
def download_step(return_data_flag, step_title, step_error, url, post_data=None):
try:
cond_print('%s... ' % step_title)
- data = perform_request(url, post_data).read()
+ data = perform_request(url, data=post_data).read()
cond_print('done.\n')
if return_data_flag:
return data
# Create the command line options parser and parse command line
cmdl_usage = 'usage: %prog [options] video_url'
-cmdl_version = '2008.01.24'
+cmdl_version = '2008.03.08'
cmdl_parser = optparse.OptionParser(usage=cmdl_usage, version=cmdl_version, conflict_handler='resolve')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-h', '--help', action='help', help='print this help text and exit')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-v', '--version', action='version', help='print program version and exit')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-n', '--netrc', action='store_true', dest='use_netrc', help='use .netrc authentication data')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-g', '--get-url', action='store_true', dest='get_url', help='print final video URL only')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-2', '--title-too', action='store_true', dest='get_title', help='used with -g, print title too')
+cmdl_parser.add_option('-b', '--best-quality', action='store_true', dest='best_quality', help='try to download the best quality version')
(cmdl_opts, cmdl_args) = cmdl_parser.parse_args()
# Set socket timeout
sys.exit('Error: URL does not seem to be a youtube video URL. If it is, report a bug.')
video_url_id = video_url_mo.group(2)
video_url = const_video_url_str % video_url_id
+if cmdl_opts.best_quality:
+ video_url = '%s%s' % (video_url, const_video_url_best_quality_suffix)
+ video_extension = '.mp4'
+else:
+ video_extension = '.flv'
# Check conflicting options
if cmdl_opts.outfile is not None and (cmdl_opts.simulate or cmdl_opts.get_url):
# Get output file name
if cmdl_opts.outfile is None:
- video_filename = '%s.flv' % video_url_id
+ video_filename = '%s%s' % (video_url_id, video_extension)
else:
video_filename = cmdl_opts.outfile
# Extract needed video URL parameters
video_url_t_param = extract_step('Extracting URL "t" parameter', 'unable to extract URL "t" parameter', const_url_t_param_re, video_webpage)
video_url_real = const_video_url_real_str % (video_url_id, video_url_t_param)
+if cmdl_opts.best_quality:
+ video_url_real = '%s%s' % (video_url_real, const_video_url_best_quality_suffix)
# Rebuild filename if needed
if cmdl_opts.use_title or cmdl_opts.use_literal:
prefix = title_string_norm(video_title)
else:
prefix = title_string_touch(video_title)
- video_filename = '%s-%s.flv' % (prefix, video_url_id)
+ video_filename = '%s-%s%s' % (prefix, video_url_id, video_extension)
# Check name
-if not video_filename.lower().endswith('.flv'):
- sys.stderr.write('Warning: video file name does not end in .flv\n')
+if not video_filename.lower().endswith(video_extension):
+ sys.stderr.write('Warning: video file name does not end in %s\n' % video_extension)
# Retrieve video data
try: