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13 Jul 2007 @ 12:54 PM

How To > Get a Direct URL to YouTube’s FLV Files!

Ok so I have had my own method of getting YouTube FLV files before today, but thanks to Google and their wonderful archiving of all things there is now an easier way! A way that could be automated (hint hint). Flash videos are not only sexy, but they come without the ugly YouTube players so you can use your own. It’s so easy you can probably remember how to do it without looking it up!

FLV link for YouTube videos! – http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=

Example YouTube Address – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0kz8MCxq6A

Becomes - http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=t0kz8MCxq6A

What’s the point you ask? Go to Rip-Off Theater > Click Flash > Click *Will it Blend.

Looks about a million times better fullscreen on my site (requires flash 9.028 or higher for fullscreen) than trying to watch all 50+ videos on YouTube’s slow ugly pages, in their little ugly player!

Categories: Internet, Neat Tricks Posted By: Jamez
Last Edit: 13 Jul 2007 @ 01 19 PM

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Jarek

To make it clear: it doesn't work anymore

trimidium

uses jw player so just view the source of the webpage. there will be a direct link to all videos in the src= section of the source. Unless it's youtube and then it will just list the youtube address.

on my page there is an iframe so you would need to make sure you were viewing the frame source.

cara

so this may be the wrong thread for this, but i am looking for a way to rip a video from a website (the vid uses a jw player), and so far have tried about a million things to no avail. realplayer doesn't work, no online conversion sites (as one would use for youtube) work, and i am at my (admittedly limited) wits end. any possiblity you could help?

trimidium

Hey thanks man. I do my best... tell your friends ;)

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CuriousRiz

Okay, this is off topic but is there still no way to embed a video that isn't from stage6 onto a stage6 blog or forum? If not then maybe a link that opens up a new window with the embeded video inside.
Ex.
JW player opens in new window and plays the video file from another site.

Well, if no one can answer this then that's alright. I don't think we'll ever see videos from other sites on stage6 except in linked video websites : \

trocphunc

try http://emssvietnam.com/Web/GetLink.aspx >> get link download from youtube, metacafe, break, putfile, video.google.com, free, no register, no email

trimidium

Currently there does not appear to be any pattern to the link. So for the moment you will have to use a program that reads header information to get the full URL. I use 'Tamper Data' add-on for Firefox 2 see what the actual link is. *(be careful with that add-on, it conflicts with a few other ones and will freeze your browser if you have one of those enabled)*

franklin

Great trick. Congrats.

Any idea on how to find the right server for the FLV ?

trimidium

this method is now screwed. They added a variable to the URL. That URL now looks like this: http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=t0kz8MCxq6A&origin;=lax-v104.lax.youtube.com

The &origin;=bullshit variable tells what server the video is located on. However there aren't just one or two servers, there are 200 or so. That means that there is no one generic URL. I have been busy and didn't notice that this was broken until your comment. I now have to go through all of my videos and open them and find an actual direct FLV link for every video, which is very time consuming compared to my original posted method which was really FAST to add new youtube videos.

oh well

George

This links doesnt work anytime: http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=t0kz8MCxq6A

How to change it?

Yasir

I have checked your website. It will be cool if you put a logo on the top of right corner. You can do that by adding this variable to your player page:
s2.addVariable("logo", "logo.png");
// replace the 'logo.png' with your image.

Anyways your youtube ripping idea is not bad:)
thanks

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