Simple script for downloading Arte videos. Use at your own risk (and respect the copyright of Arte), it requires rtmpdump.

arte_download.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'cgi'
require 'rexml/document'
require 'optparse'
require 'time'

options = {
  :lang => 'de',
  :quality => 'hd'
}

OptionParser.new do |opts|
  opts.on('-l', '--lang LANGUAGE', ['de', 'fr'], "Language (de, fr)") { |v| options[:lang] = v }
  opts.on('-u', '--url URL', "URL to download from", :REQUIRED) { |v| options[:url] = v }
  opts.on('-q', '--quality QUALITY', ['hd', 'EQ', 'sd'], 'Quality of the video (hd, EQ, sd)') { |v| options[:quality] = v }
  opts.on('-o', '--output-file FILE', 'Location of the output file') { |v| options[:output_file] = v }
  opts.on_tail("-h", "--help", "Show this message") do
    puts opts
    exit
  end
end.parse!

htmlContent = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(options[:url])).body
swfURL = htmlContent.scan(/var url_player = "(.*?\.swf)"/).first.first
xmlURL = CGI::unescape(htmlContent.scan(/videorefFileUrl=(.*?)"/).first.first)

languageXML = REXML::Document.new(Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(xmlURL)).body)

qualityXMLURL = languageXML.elements["videoref/videos/video[@lang='" + options[:lang] + "']"].attributes['ref']
qualityXML = REXML::Document.new(Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(qualityXMLURL)).body)

streamURL = qualityXML.elements["video/urls/url[@quality='" + options[:quality] + "']"].text

if options[:output_file].nil?
  options[:output_file] = Time.rfc2822(qualityXML.elements['video/dateVideo'].text).strftime("%Y-%m-%d-") + qualityXML.elements['video/name'].text.gsub('/','-') + '.mp4'
end

exec('rtmpdump', '--resume', '-r', streamURL, '-o', options[:output_file], '--swfVfy', swfURL)