May 10, 2011

SBS Downloader in Python

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , , — James Bunton @ 11:33 pm

Update: See WebDL

Just wrote a simple downloader script for SBS’s website. The SBS Player interface is all in flash and is very hard to use on my TV, so this script lets me download the stuff I’m interested in and play it however/whenever I want.

It has a simple command line interface and requires that you already have rtmpdump on your path. Get the sbs-downloader script here.

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May 8, 2011

YouTube Downloader

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , — James Bunton @ 12:46 am

I just wrote a simple YouTube downloader. You can grab the code for it from here:
youtube.cgi

It’s a simple CGI script with a form to submit a YouTube URL. It then streams the video download to the user. If you run this on a machine in the USA then it provides an easy way to bypass YouTube’s region checking.

Ask me if you want the URL for an installed copy.