#!/usr/bin/env python
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import sys
import optparse
import httplib
import urllib2
import re
import string
import os
# First off, check Python and refuse to run
if sys.hexversion < 0x020400f0:
sys.exit('Error: Python 2.4 or later needed to run the program')
# 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'
YouTube - ([^<]*)', re.M | re.I)
const_1k = 1024
const_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 temporal 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 not data is 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 = title.lower()
title = map(lambda x: x in string.whitespace and '_' or x, title)
title = filter(lambda x: x in string.lowercase or x in string.digits or x == '_', title)
return ''.join(title)
# Create the command line options parser and parse command line
cmdl_usage = 'usage: %prog [options] video_url'
cmdl_version = '2006.12.03'
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_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 not cmdl_opts.outfile is None and cmdl_opts.simulate:
sys.stderr.write('Warning: video file name given but will not be used.\n')
if not cmdl_opts.outfile is None and cmdl_opts.use_title:
sys.exit('Error: using the video title conflicts with using a given file name.')
# 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')
# Verify both or none present
if ((cmdl_opts.username is None and not cmdl_opts.password is None) or
(not cmdl_opts.username is None and cmdl_opts.password is None)):
sys.exit('Error: both username and password must be given, or none.')
# 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()))
# Login and confirm age if needed
if not cmdl_opts.username is None:
try:
# Log in
cond_print('Logging in... ')
perform_request(const_login_url_str % video_url_id, const_login_post_str % (video_url_id, cmdl_opts.username, cmdl_opts.password)).read()
cond_print('done.\n')
except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, httplib.HTTPException, TypeError):
cond_print('failed.\n')
error_advice_exit('unable to login')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit('\n')
try:
# Get age confirmation cookie
cond_print('Confirming age... ')
perform_request(const_age_url_str % video_url_id, const_age_post_str % video_url_id).read()
cond_print('done.\n')
except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, httplib.HTTPException, TypeError):
cond_print('failed.\n')
error_advice_exit('unable to confirm age')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit('\n')
# Retrieve video webpage
try:
cond_print('Retrieving video webpage... ')
video_webpage = perform_request(video_url).read()
cond_print('done.\n')
except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, httplib.HTTPException, TypeError):
cond_print('failed.\n')
error_advice_exit('unable to download video webpage')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit('\n')
# Extract video title if needed
if cmdl_opts.use_title:
try:
cond_print('Extracting video title... ')
video_title_mo = const_video_title_re.search(video_webpage)
if video_title_mo is None:
cond_print('failed.\n')
error_advice_exit('unable to extract video title')
video_title = video_title_mo.group(1)
cond_print('done.\n')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit('\n')
# Extract needed video URL parameters
try:
cond_print('Extracting video URL parameters... ')
video_url_params_mo = const_video_url_params_re.search(video_webpage)
if video_url_params_mo is None:
cond_print('failed.\n')
error_advice_exit('unable to extract URL parameters')
video_url_params = video_url_params_mo.group(1)
video_url_real = const_video_url_real_str % video_url_params
cond_print('done.\n')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit('\n')
# 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()
cond_print('Retrieving video data... ')
video_file = open(video_filename, 'wb')
try:
video_len_str = '%sk' % to_k(int(video_data.info()['Content-length']))
except KeyError:
video_len_str = '(unknown)'
byte_counter = 0
video_block = video_data.read(const_block_size)
while len(video_block) != 0:
byte_counter += len(video_block)
video_file.write(video_block)
cond_print('\rRetrieving video data... %sk of %s ' % (to_k(byte_counter), video_len_str))
video_block = video_data.read(const_block_size)
video_file.close()
cond_print('done.\n')
cond_print('Video data saved to %s\n' % video_filename)
except (urllib2.URLError, ValueError, httplib.HTTPException, TypeError):
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:
new_video_filename = '%s.flv' % title_string_norm(video_title)
os.rename(video_filename, new_video_filename)
cond_print('Video file renamed to %s\n' % new_video_filename)
except OSError:
sys.stderr.write('Warning: unable to rename file.\n')
except KeyboardInterrupt:
sys.exit('\n')
# Finish
sys.exit()