get-flash-videos - freeware open source command line program to download flash videos

get-flash-videos - freeware open source command line program to download flash videos

get-flash-videos allows to download videos from various Flash-based video hosting sites, without having to use the Flash player.

Supports Linux, Windows and OS X

get-flash-videos includes support for the following sites/players:
YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph ...), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv.

Sample usage:
Run the following in the command line (terminal):

get_flash_videos "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc5OyXmHD0w&feature=fvst"

And you will download video from the following YouTube web-page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc5OyXmHD0w&feature=fvst

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FYI, two Canadian sites now supported by get-flash-videos:

• TOU.TV (French CBC aka Radio-Canada)
• CTV