Tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube

[Alexandru Ciobanu]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Is there some tool for downloading video/audio files from YouTube?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 
For a single file you can use this sh script:

#!/bin/bash
bu="http://youtube.com/get_video.php?";
read -p "URL to YouTube video? " ur;
read -p "Name of file to be saved? " nv
wget ${ur} -O /var/tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /var/tmp/y1 | cut 
-d? -f2 |
cut -d\" -f1`;
wget "${uf}" -O /var/tmp/y.flv
ffmpeg -i /var/tmp/y.flv -r 24 -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320x240 ${nv}.mpg;
rm /var/tmp/y.flv;
rm /var/tmp/y1;
exit

You need ffmpeg, of course. For multiple files you can loop this or 
something...

HTH