using WWW::YouTube::Download?

[squishy]

I've poked about Google looking for example code using this module. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything.

I know YouTube changes their formats periodically, but I haven't been able to find anything stating whether WWW::YouTube::Download is still viable or not. Given the information on the CPAN Webpage does anyone here know:

• What is the form of the $video_id?
• What is the form expected for callback?

Any insight shared would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[frozenwithjoy]

Given the YouTube url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4NMoJcFd4, the $video_id is sP4NMoJcFd4.

UPDATE... The following was sufficient to d/l that video (and it played successfully using VLC). I also used some of the other calls successfully, so it seems like all is working well with this module.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::YouTube::Download;
my $video_id = "sP4NMoJcFd4";
my $client = WWW::YouTube::Download->new;
$client->download($video_id);

[Anonymous Monk]

I tried this code to download a youtube video and got the message: !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZhEvsQmWQ&cc=1 download failed: 403 Forbidden at C:\...\perlDownloader.pl line 8 If you can offer some suggestions to prevent this negative response, I would appreciate.

[frozenwithjoy]

I re-ran the code I posted in June (that definitely worked in June) and I'm getting a 403 error, too. Perhaps YouTube is blocking downloading of videos in this manner.

[Anonymous Monk]

Look inside and you'll see :) http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-YouTube-Download/MANIFEST (for starters see eg/cb.pl and eg/parallel.pl )

see also youtube-download

see also http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/

[linuxkid]

Next time, please try reading the code first!