On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:33:07PM +1100, Chris wrote: > yt is giving me the following error while trying to download - > > $ yt http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw&feature=dir > > $ Getting http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw ... > /usr/local/bin/lua: /usr/local/bin/yt:42: assertion failed! > stack traceback: > [C]: in function 'assert' > /usr/local/bin/yt:42: in main chunk > [C]: ? > [2]+ Exit 1 yt http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw > > I have yt-6 and lua-5.1.2p0 installed on 4.2. > > Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. >
I get the same thing. If I use this script (sorry, kind of raw) I can get out your video. If you turn on verbose output so you can see the intermediate urls, I think you can see that at least one of the assumptions yt makes isn't true here (the one about the "fullscreen" parameter on lines 41, 42). The page referenced below is very helpful: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl # Adapted from the one liner described here (by Peteris Krumin?): # http://www.catonmat.net/blog/downloading-youtube-videos-with-a-perl-one-liner/ # Pass youtube URL use WWW::Mechanize; $_ = shift; s#http://|www\.|youtube\.com/|watch\?|v=|##g; $url1 = "http://www.youtube.com/v/$_";; $verbose = shift; print "getting $url1\n" if $verbose; $m = WWW::Mechanize->new; ($t = $m->get($url1)->request->uri) =~ s/.*&t=(.+)/$1/; $url2 = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=$_&t=$t";; print "getting $url2\n" if $verbose; $m->get($url2, ":content_file" => "$_.flv"); print "Got $_.flv\n"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Mike Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]
