Downloading videos in flv format from youtube.

Question

I cant really understand how youtube serves videos but I have been reading through what I can, it seems like the old method get_video is now obsolete and can\'t be used any more

Answer 1

You might have some luck with youtube-dl

http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/documentation.html

I'm not sure if there's a good API, but it's written in Python, so theoretically you could do something a little better than Popen :)