Download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Daily Motion, Vimeo, #

and many more with Movgrab. It's written in straight C with no dependencies; building is as simple as ./configure && make. Usage example:
$ movgrab -T 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XEujPG7Zjw'
Formats available for this Movie:webm:640x360 (8.4M), flv-h264:640x360 (8.3M), mp4:480x360 (9.9M), flv:400x240 (8.0M), 3gp (2.1M),
...
$ movgrab -f webm:640x360 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XEujPG7Zjw'
...
Selected format item:webm:640x360
    Progress: 3.12% 254.9k of 8.0M 41.0k/s

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/nix | Oct 23, 2012


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