Very cool and useful! Thanks! uriel
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Kris Maglione <maglion...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a cleaned up version of some of the scripts I've been using for a > long time to play videos from sites like YouTube. I use a key binding in my > browser to copy the video URL and run this script, which automatically runs > a media player with the given video. It can also fetch streaming videos. I > have another script that I use along with it to fetch a series of videos > (the dreaded multi-part uploads of YouTube fame), which I'm not uploading at > the moment. > > For now, the only sites supported are YouTube and Revision3, but I'm > releasing in the hope that others will find it useful and add more. I have > some others, but they're not remotely release ready. I'm well aware that > there are other such programs around, but they all tend to weigh in at > several thousand lines, and the logic for the individual sites is burried > somewhere in the middle. With vp, to add a new site, you just add a new vp-* > file, put the URL pattern at the top, and write whatever logic you need. > > The basic requirements are 9base or plan9port, curl, and, at the moment, a > javascript engine (spidermonkey or kjs) for the youtube script, although > I'll probably replace it with an awk script in the near future. > > hg clone http://hg.suckless.org/vp > cd vp > mk install > > -- > Kris Maglione > > You're bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything. > --Donald Knuth > > >
