clive doesn't extract youtube file

Rodolfo Medina

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Nov 24, 2009, 5:40:02 PM11/24/09

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Hi to all Debian users.

I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it
seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:

$ clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o
clive 0.4.18 20080715 [Linux]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o&fmt=18 101.8KB
error: extraction url (&video_id) not found
=> 0 (0.0B), failed: 1, skipped: 0.
error: nothing to extract.

Please anybody's help, I don't know what to do neither can guess what the
problem is.

Thanks
Rodolfo

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Mike Castle

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Nov 24, 2009, 6:00:02 PM11/24/09

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Rodolfo Medina
<rodolfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it
> seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:

I believe that youtube has retired some support for a variety of
formats, so maybe the software simply needs to be updated for what is
now supported.

A recent web search for [youtube downloader] turned up a number of
discussions about this, and that is what I'm basing my reply on.

Tzafrir Cohen

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Nov 24, 2009, 6:10:01 PM11/24/09

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:35:09PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi to all Debian users.
>
> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it
> seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:
>
> $ clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o
> clive 0.4.18 20080715 [Linux]
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o&fmt=18 101.8KB
> error: extraction url (&video_id) not found
> => 0 (0.0B), failed: 1, skipped: 0.
> error: nothing to extract.

Here I just rebuilt cclive from Unstable a while ago.

Daniel Dalton

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Nov 25, 2009, 1:00:02 AM11/25/09

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:35:09PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Hi to all Debian users.
>
> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it
> seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:

Hi, I wrote my own script to do this in python, just to see if I could
actually do it, it basically retrieves the flash player file, and puts
it through mplayer, and then saves the video to a local file... Of
course you don't have to auto play the video -- just uncomment the
appropriate line. Do you want a copy? If so email me off list.

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Sven Hoexter

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Nov 25, 2009, 5:30:02 AM11/25/09

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:35:09PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Hi to all Debian users.
>
> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it
> seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:

There is a more recent package of clive on backports.org that works.

Sven
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Howard Eisenberger

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Nov 26, 2009, 9:30:02 AM11/26/09

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On 2009-11-24, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi to all Debian users.
>
> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but
> it seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:
>
> $ clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o
> clive 0.4.18 20080715 [Linux]
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o&fmt=18 101.8KB
> error: extraction url (&video_id) not found
>=> 0 (0.0B), failed: 1, skipped: 0.
> error: nothing to extract.

It may not be a clive problem.

If I go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o in my browser
Youtube says, "This video has been removed by the user. "

Regards,

Howard E.

Rodolfo Medina

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Nov 27, 2009, 6:00:03 AM11/27/09

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Howard Eisenberger <how...@gmx.net> writes:

> On 2009-11-24, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but
>> it seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:
>>
>> $ clive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o
>> clive 0.4.18 20080715 [Linux]
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o&fmt=18 101.8KB
>> error: extraction url (&video_id) not found
>>=> 0 (0.0B), failed: 1, skipped: 0.
>> error: nothing to extract.
>
> It may not be a clive problem.
>
> If I go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucOVqmhXa-o in my browser
> Youtube says, "This video has been removed by the user. "

Yes, now it's been removed, but even when it was there, clive didn't manage to
extract it.

Rodolfo