A script to download and convert multiple YouTube videos |
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There are many solutions on the web on how to download YouTube videos using bash scripts, e.g. see this one as an example. However, using scripts described in the above link may be a little uncomfortable if you wish to get lots of YouTube clips. So I've modified those scripts a little bit so that the URLs are put into a single file with this structure:
url1
name1
url2
name2
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urlN
nameN
where urlN and nameN are Nth clip's URL and desired local filename for the saved movie file.
YouTube's FLV files are also converted to AVI format via ffmpeg (see this hint and comments on how to get and install it). I prefer AVI to FLV since most players have problems with FLV movies when it comes to scrolling through them.
Here is the script:
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