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youtube-dl.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez
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import getpass
import httplib
import math
import netrc
import optparse
import os
import re
import socket
import string
import sys
import time
import urllib
import urllib2
# Global constants
const_1k = 1024
const_initial_block_size = 10 * const_1k
const_epsilon = 0.0001
const_timeout = 120
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_format_suffix = '&fmt=%s'
const_best_quality_format = 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_bad_login_re = re.compile(r'(?i)<form[^>]* name="loginForm"')
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_url_t_param_re = re.compile(r', "t": "([^"]+)"')
const_video_url_real_str = 'http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=%s&t=%s'
const_video_title_re = re.compile(r'<title>YouTube - ([^<]*)</title>', re.M | re.I)
# 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('* Video no longer exists.\n')
sys.stderr.write('* Video requires age confirmation but you did not provide an account.\n')
sys.stderr.write('* You provided the account data, but it is not valid.\n')
sys.stderr.write('* The connection was cut suddenly for some reason.\n')
sys.stderr.write('* YouTube changed their system, and this program version 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('Make sure you are using the latest program version.\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, extra_headers, post_data):
retval = urllib2.Request(url)
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:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14')
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, headers=None, data=None):
request = request_create(url, headers, data)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
return response
# Conditional print
def cond_print(str):
global cmdl_opts
if not (cmdl_opts.quiet or cmdl_opts.get_url):
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, data=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 / 2.0, 1.0)
new_max = max(bytes * 2.0, 1.0)
dif = after - before
if dif < const_epsilon:
return int(new_max)
rate = bytes / dif
if rate > new_max:
return int(new_max)
if rate < new_min:
return int(new_min)
return int(rate)
# Get optimum 1k exponent to represent a number of bytes
def optimum_k_exp(num_bytes):
global const_1k
if num_bytes == 0:
return 0
return long(math.log(num_bytes, const_1k))
# Get optimum representation of number of bytes
def format_bytes(num_bytes):
global const_1k
try:
exp = optimum_k_exp(num_bytes)
suffix = 'bkMGTPEZY'[exp]
if exp == 0:
return '%s%s' % (num_bytes, suffix)
converted = float(num_bytes) / float(const_1k**exp)
return '%.2f%s' % (converted, suffix)
except IndexError:
sys.exit('Error: internal error formatting number of bytes.')
# Calculate ETA and return it in string format as MM:SS
def calc_eta(start, now, total, current):
dif = now - start
if current == 0 or dif < const_epsilon:
return '--:--'
rate = float(current) / dif
eta = long((total - current) / rate)
(eta_mins, eta_secs) = divmod(eta, 60)
if eta_mins > 99:
return '--:--'
return '%02d:%02d' % (eta_mins, eta_secs)
# Calculate speed and return it in string format
def calc_speed(start, now, bytes):
dif = now - start
if bytes == 0 or dif < const_epsilon:
return 'N/A b'
return format_bytes(float(bytes) / dif)
# Title string minimal transformation
def title_string_touch(title):
return title.replace(os.sep, '%')
# Create the command line options parser and parse command line
cmdl_usage = 'usage: %prog [options] video_url ...'
cmdl_version = '2008.04.20'
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('-l', '--literal', action='store_true', dest='use_literal', help='use literal title in file name')
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('-f', '--format', dest='video_format', metavar='FORMAT', help='append &fmt=FORMAT to the URL')
cmdl_parser.add_option('-b', '--best-quality', action='store_true', dest='best_quality', help='alias for -f 18')
(cmdl_opts, cmdl_args) = cmdl_parser.parse_args()
# Set socket timeout
socket.setdefaulttimeout(const_timeout)
# Get video URL
if len(cmdl_args) == 0:
cmdl_parser.print_help()
sys.exit('\n')
# Verify video URL format and convert to "standard" format
video_urls = []
for video_url_cmdl in cmdl_args:
video_url_mo = const_video_url_re.match(video_url_cmdl)
if video_url_mo is None:
video_url_mo = const_video_url_re.match(urllib.unquote(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(2)
video_urls.append((const_video_url_str % video_url_id, video_url_id))
video_format = None
if cmdl_opts.best_quality:
video_format = const_best_quality_format
video_extension = '.mp4'
else:
video_extension = '.flv'
if cmdl_opts.video_format is not None:
if video_format is not None and video_format != cmdl_opts.video_format:
sys.exit('ERROR: conflicting video formats specified\n')
video_format = cmdl_opts.video_format
if video_format is not None:
video_urls = [('%s%s' % (x, const_video_url_format_suffix % video_format), y) for (x, y) in video_urls]
# Check conflicting options
if cmdl_opts.outfile is not None and (cmdl_opts.simulate or cmdl_opts.get_url):
sys.stderr.write('Warning: video file name given but will not be used.\n')
if cmdl_opts.outfile is not None and len(video_urls) > 1:
sys.exit('ERROR: you cannot specify the output name and give several URLs.')
if cmdl_opts.outfile is not None and (cmdl_opts.use_title or cmdl_opts.use_literal):
sys.exit('ERROR: using the video title conflicts with using a given file name.')
if cmdl_opts.use_title and cmdl_opts.use_literal:
sys.exit('ERROR: cannot use title and literal title at the same time.')
if cmdl_opts.quiet and cmdl_opts.get_url:
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