Re: video archiving

I found this script (python) once that does exactly what you need. Just
run it with no arguments to see how to use it. You will need all the
video plugins installed in order for Totem (or whatever you use) to open
the videos.

Hope it helps.

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:21 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> I found some videos on youtube I would like my wife to see, but I don't have
> internet access at home. Does anyone know who to archive the videos on
> youtube?
>
> Nathan
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#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright (c) 2006 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez
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import getpass
import httplib
import netrc
import optparse
import os
import re
import socket
import string
import sys
import time
import urllib2

# Global constants
const_video_url_str = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%s'
const_video_url_re = re.compile(r'(?:http://)?(?:www\d*\.)?youtube\.com/(?:v/|(?:watch(?:\.php)?)?\?v=)([^&]+).*')
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'
const_age_post_str = 'next_url=%%2Fwatch%%3Fv%%3D%s&action_confirm=Confirm'
const_video_url_params_re = re.compile(r'player2\.swf\?([^"]+)"', re.M)
const_video_url_real_str = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?%s'
const_video_title_re = re.compile(r'<title>YouTube - ([^<]*)</title>', re.M | re.I)
const_1k = 1024
const_initial_block_size = 10 * const_1k

# Print error message, followed by standard advice information, and then exit
def error_advice_exit(error_text):
    sys.stderr.write('Error: %s.\n' % error_text)
    sys.stderr.write('Try again several times. It may be a temporary problem.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('Other typical problems:\n\n')
    sys.stderr.write('\tVideo no longer exists.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('\tVideo requires age confirmation but you did not provide an account.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('\tYou provided the account data, but it is not valid.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('\tThe connection was cut suddenly for some reason.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('\tYouTube changed their system, and the program no longer works.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('\nTry to confirm you are able to view the video using a web browser.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('Use the same video URL and account information, if needed, with this program.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('When using a proxy, make sure http_proxy has http://host:port format.\n')
    sys.stderr.write('Try again several times and contact me if the problem persists.\n')
    sys.exit('\n')

# Wrapper to create custom requests with typical headers
def request_create(url, data=None):
    retval = urllib2.Request(url)
    if data is not None:
        retval.add_data(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) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0')
    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')
    return retval

# Perform a request, process headers and return response
def perform_request(url, data=None):
    request = request_create(url, data)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    return response

# Convert bytes to KiB
def to_k(bytes):
    global const_1k
    return bytes / const_1k

# Conditional print
def cond_print(str):
    global cmdl_opts
    if not cmdl_opts.quiet:
        sys.stdout.write(str)
        sys.stdout.flush()

# Title string normalization
def title_string_norm(title):
    title = ''.join((x in string.ascii_letters or x in string.digits) and x or ' ' for x in title)
    title = '_'.join(title.split())
    title = title.lower()
    return title

# Generic download step
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()
        cond_print('done.\n')
        if return_data_flag:
            return data
        return None

    except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, httplib.HTTPException, TypeError, socket.error):
        cond_print('failed.\n')
        error_advice_exit(step_error)

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        sys.exit('\n')

# Generic extract step
def extract_step(step_title, step_error, regexp, data):
    try:
        cond_print('%s... ' % step_title)
        match = regexp.search(data)

        

        if match is None:
            cond_print('failed.\n')
            error_advice_exit(step_error)

        

        extracted_data = match.group(1)
        cond_print('done.\n')
        return extracted_data

    

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        sys.exit('\n')

# Calculate new block size based on previous block size
def new_block_size(before, after, bytes):
    new_min = max(bytes / 2, 1)
    new_max = max(bytes * 2, 1)
    dif = after - before
    if dif < 0.0001:
        return new_max
    rate = int(bytes / dif)
    if rate > new_max:
        return new_max
    if rate < new_min:
        return new_min
    return rate

# Create the command line options parser and parse command line
cmdl_usage = 'usage: %prog [options] video_url'
cmdl_version = '2007.02.18'
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('-u', '--username', dest='username', metavar='USERNAME', help='account username')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-p', '--password', dest='password', metavar='PASSWORD', help='account password')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-o', '--output', dest='outfile', metavar='FILE', help='output video file name')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-q', '--quiet', action='store_true', dest='quiet', help='activates quiet mode')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-s', '--simulate', action='store_true', dest='simulate', help='do not download video')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-t', '--title', action='store_true', dest='use_title', help='use title in file name')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-n', '--netrc', action='store_true', dest='use_netrc', help='use .netrc authentication data')
(cmdl_opts, cmdl_args) = cmdl_parser.parse_args()

# Get video URL
if len(cmdl_args) != 1:
    cmdl_parser.print_help()
    sys.exit('\n')
video_url_cmdl = cmdl_args[0]

# Verify video URL format and convert to "standard" format
video_url_mo = const_video_url_re.match(video_url_cmdl)
if video_url_mo is None:
    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(1)
video_url = const_video_url_str % video_url_id

# Check conflicting options
if cmdl_opts.outfile is not None and cmdl_opts.simulate:
    sys.stderr.write('Warning: video file name given but will not be used.\n')

if cmdl_opts.outfile is not None and cmdl_opts.use_title:
    sys.exit('Error: using the video title conflicts with using a given file name.')

if cmdl_opts.use_netrc and cmdl_opts.password is not None:
    sys.exit('Error: using netrc conflicts with giving command line password.')

# Incorrect option formatting
if cmdl_opts.username is None and cmdl_opts.password is not None:
    sys.exit('Error: password give but username is missing.')

# Get account information if any
account_username = None
account_password = None

if cmdl_opts.use_netrc:
    try:
        info = netrc.netrc().authenticators('youtube')
        if info is None:
            sys.exit('Error: no authenticators for machine youtube.')
        netrc_username = info[0]
        netrc_password = info[2]
    except IOError:
        sys.exit('Error: unable to read .netrc file.')
    except netrc.NetrcParseError:
        sys.exit('Error: unable to parse .netrc file.')

if cmdl_opts.password is not None:
    account_username = cmdl_opts.username
    account_password = cmdl_opts.password
else:
    if cmdl_opts.username is not None and cmdl_opts.use_netrc:
        if cmdl_opts.username != netrc_username:
            sys.exit('Error: conflicting username from .netrc and command line options.')
        account_username = cmdl_opts.username
        account_password = netrc_password
    elif cmdl_opts.username is not None:
        account_username = cmdl_opts.username
        account_password = getpass.getpass('Type YouTube password and press return: ')
    elif cmdl_opts.use_netrc:
        if len(netrc_username) == 0:
            sys.exit('Error: empty username in .netrc file.')
        account_username = netrc_username
        account_password = netrc_password

# Get output file name 
if cmdl_opts.outfile is None:
    video_filename = '%s.flv' % video_url_id
else:
    video_filename = cmdl_opts.outfile

# Check name
if not video_filename.lower().endswith('.flv'):
    sys.stderr.write('Warning: video file name does not end in .flv\n')

# Test writable file
if not cmdl_opts.simulate:
    try:
        disk_test = open(video_filename, 'wb')
        disk_test.close()

    except (OSError, IOError):
        sys.exit('Error: unable to open %s for writing.' % video_filename)

# Install cookie and proxy handlers
urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.ProxyHandler()))
urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()))

# Log in and confirm age if needed
if account_username is not None:
    url = const_login_url_str % video_url_id
    post = const_login_post_str % (video_url_id, account_username, account_password)
    download_step(False, 'Logging in', 'unable to log in', url, post)

    url = const_age_url_str % video_url_id
    post = const_age_post_str % video_url_id
    download_step(False, 'Confirming age', 'unable to confirm age', url, post)

# Retrieve video webpage
video_webpage = download_step(True, 'Retrieving video webpage', 'unable to retrieve video webpage', video_url)

# Extract video title if needed
if cmdl_opts.use_title:
    video_title = extract_step('Extracting video title', 'unable to extract video title', const_video_title_re, video_webpage)

# Extract needed video URL parameters
video_url_params = extract_step('Extracting video URL parameters', 'unable to extract URL parameters', const_video_url_params_re, video_webpage)
video_url_real = const_video_url_real_str % video_url_params

# Retrieve video data
try:
    video_data = perform_request(video_url_real)
    cond_print('Video data found at %s\n' % video_data.geturl())

    # Abort here if in simulate mode
    if cmdl_opts.simulate:
        sys.exit()

    video_file = open(video_filename, 'wb')
    try:
        video_len_str = '%sk' % to_k(long(video_data.info()['Content-length']))
    except KeyError:
        video_len_str = '(unknown)'

    byte_counter = 0
    block_size = const_initial_block_size
    while True:
        cond_print('\rRetrieving video data... %sk of %s ' % (to_k(byte_counter), video_len_str))
        before = time.time()
        video_block = video_data.read(block_size)
        after = time.time()
        dl_bytes = len(video_block)
        if dl_bytes == 0:
            break
        byte_counter += dl_bytes
        video_file.write(video_block)
        block_size = new_block_size(before, after, dl_bytes)

    video_file.close()
    cond_print('done.\n')
    cond_print('Video data saved to %s\n' % video_filename)

except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, httplib.HTTPException, TypeError, socket.error):
    cond_print('failed.\n')
    error_advice_exit('unable to download video data')

except KeyboardInterrupt:
    sys.exit('\n')

# Rename video file if needed
if cmdl_opts.use_title:
    try:
        final_filename = '%s-%s.flv' % (title_string_norm(video_title), video_url_id)
        os.rename(video_filename, final_filename)
        cond_print('Video file renamed to %s\n' % final_filename)

    

    except OSError:
        sys.stderr.write('Warning: unable to rename file.\n')

    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        sys.exit('\n')

# Finish
sys.exit()
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