Download videos from Youtube,Google and other video sites in Debian Linux
Posted by Admin on July 19th, 2008
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Features
- Multi-platform; POSIX (BSD/Linux/UNIX-like)
- Supports:
Youtube
GoogleVideo
Dailymotion
Guba
Metacafe
Sevenload
Myvideo
- Bandwidth throttle
- Multi-URL (batch) support
- Compatible with UNIX pipes
- Configuration file support
- Integration with X clipboard (xclip)
- Chain with a 3rd party player software for playing
- Chain with ffmpeg for subsequent re-encoding
- Proxy support; option and http_proxy environment setting
Further more:
- High/low-quality support where applicable (e.g. Youtube)
- URL caching; re-fetch video page only if necessary
- Cache browsing
- Parse and extract videos from RSS/Atom feeds
- Scan and extract embedded videos (Youtube, GoogleVideo)
- Recall last URL batch
- Overridable output filename formatting
- Overridable video page title parsing
- Youtube log-in support with flagged-content override
- Automatic Metacafe family-filter override
- Dailymotion log-in support
- Gzip compressed video page data transfers
- Continue partially downloaded files*
*=excluding Youtube/FLV and GoogleVideo/FLV
Install clive in Debian
# aptitude install clive
This will complete the installation.
Clive Example
clive http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LToULvLhE&feature=dir
Usage: clive [options] URLs
For more option check here


July 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
On debian etch aptitude claims it cannot find package clive. I have main contrib non-free repos.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:34 am
hi,
the link in “For more option check here” is not working …
this is the right one: http://home.gna.org/clive/clive.1.txt
cheers,
herold
September 12th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
clive is in the backports packages http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions
You have to add bakcport on your /etc/apt/sources.list
November 5th, 2008 at 7:18 am
that’s great.
and it works well for me