download and watch screencast.com screencasts without quicktime. needs vlc and curl

watch-screencast

#!/bin/sh

# usage:
# $ watch-screencast http://www.screencast.com/t/WHATEVER

url="$1"
source="`curl "$url" | \
        grep '"http://content.screencast.com[^"]*media' | \
        sed -e 's/.*src="//' -e 's/".*//'`"

tmp="`mktemp`"
echo "downloading video..."
curl "$source" > "$tmp"
vlc "$tmp"
rm -f "$tmp"