Video Grabber / Youtube download - MediaShare Suite

law.dev · 07-28-2010, 08:32 PM

It is no longer working since July 21st or 22nd, due to some changes on Youtube. It looks like they have disabled all access to the "get_video" tool, which was previously used to download any clip. The "get_video" method is used by pretty much all video grabbers available on the web, but especially by the PHP based grabbers.

http://www.youtube.com/get_video?vid...uzWUDYA8FJ-N2w - this now returns ERROR 404: Not Found.
...with a little more digging, we find that the request is actually forwarded to "sjl-v45.sjl.youtube.com", so it would be:
http://sjl-v45.sjl.youtube.com/get_v...zWUDYA8FJ-N2w=
...which now returns ERROR 403: Forbidden.

We are still looking into alternatives to downloading. We are certain it is still possible, but we need to figure out how, from PHP. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post. We hope to find it as soon as possible. Please bare with us until then. Thank you for your time!

07-28-2010, 08:32 PM	#1
law.dev MediaShareSuite Staff \|Forum Regular\| Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 232	Video Grabber / Youtube download It is no longer working since July 21st or 22nd, due to some changes on Youtube. It looks like they have disabled all access to the "get_video" tool, which was previously used to download any clip. The "get_video" method is used by pretty much all video grabbers available on the web, but especially by the PHP based grabbers. http://www.youtube.com/get_video?vid...uzWUDYA8FJ-N2w - this now returns ERROR 404: Not Found. ...with a little more digging, we find that the request is actually forwarded to "sjl-v45.sjl.youtube.com", so it would be: http://sjl-v45.sjl.youtube.com/get_v...zWUDYA8FJ-N2w= ...which now returns ERROR 403: Forbidden. We are still looking into alternatives to downloading. We are certain it is still possible, but we need to figure out how, from PHP. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to post. We hope to find it as soon as possible. Please bare with us until then. Thank you for your time! __________________ Best Regards, Law R. MediaShareSuite Staff

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