September 15, 2013

Fetch and convert online flash videos

  1. Installation of prerequisite utilities:

    $ sudo cpan install WWW::Mechanize
$ git clone https://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos.git /path/to/get-flash-videos
$ ln -s /usr/local/bin/get_flash_videos /path/to/get-flash-videos/get_flash_videos

    For the installation of ffmpeg, see http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html.

  2. Download flash-video-archiver scripts:

    $ git clone https://github.com/moleculea/flash-video-archiver.git flash-video-archiver

  3. Create a file of video link list, e.g. videos.txt:

    $ cat /path/to/videos.txt

http://example.com/video/4438
http://example.com/video/4512
http://example.org/video/hjkl

  4. Fetch videos and convert them into MP4:

    $ cd flash-video-archiver
$ ./fetch.sh /path/to/videos.txt /path/to/output/directory
$ ./convert.sh /path/to/output/directory
Posted by Shichao An
Tags: Bash, Perl