Downloading videos from different websites using movgrab
So yesterday in my previous post, regarding downloading videos from youtube. But what if you want to download not only from youtube but also from other websites? We'll this movgrab command line tool comes in handy. So far I am not sure how many sites it support as I can't find any documentation but you can try to download if it can.
However I as researched, here are the supported sites and the credit goes to webupd8.org:
- YouTube
- Metacafe
- Dailymotion
- Vimeo
- Break.com
- eHow
- 5min.com
- vbox7
- blip.tv
- Ted
- MyVideo
- ClipShack
- MyTopClip
- RedBalcony
- Mobando
- Yale University
- Princeton University
- Reuters
- LiveLeak
- Academic Earth
- Photobucket
- VideoEmo
- VideosFacebook
- Aljazeera
- Mefeedia
- IViewTube
- Washington Post
- CBS News
- Euro News
- MetaTube
- MotionFeeds
- Escapist
- Guardian
- RedOrbit
- Sciive
- Izlese
- uctv.tv
- royalsociety.tv
- British Academy
- Kitp
- Dotsub
- Astronomy.com
- Teachertube.com
- Discovery
- Bloomberg.com
How to install it:
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For Ubuntu users and it's relatives:
Do this on terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install movgrab
For other Linux repositories, you can compile it and as from the author says it has no dependencies and that is really cool.
So download the source on this URL: https://sites.google.com/site/columscode/home/movgrab as their official website for movgrab.
In terminal again:
./configure
make
sudo make install
Now let us do the climax:
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In terminal again:
Syntax:
Syntax:
movgrab "URL"
Example:
movgrab "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPNKJ_hmmsg"
In case you want to customize your download depending on your needs and preferences, I won't show everything so go ahead and see the manual or documentation in terminal.
In your terminal just type: man movgrab or movgrab -h
There you have it, enjoy downloading educational videos =)
In case you want to customize your download depending on your needs and preferences, I won't show everything so go ahead and see the manual or documentation in terminal.
In your terminal just type: man movgrab or movgrab -h
There you have it, enjoy downloading educational videos =)
