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Downloading from CBS.com

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Agumon 09-30-2014 11:43 PM

Downloading from CBS.com


 
Up until around March or April, I was using RTMP Dump to rip shows from CBS.com. After they (seemingly) changed something that caused that software not to work, I was still able to get the shows from other websites (usually DirecTV.com or Uverseonline.ATT.net), but it seems like sometime over the summer, they changed their settings, as well. I'm sort of at a loss as to what to do now. Does anyone know how to rip from any of these sites these days?

blimey 10-01-2014 12:03 AM

Re: Downloading from CBS.com


 
youtube-dl supports cbs.com.

cbs.com defaults to hds, but rtmp is still available - although 720p seems to be gone.

Agumon 10-01-2014 12:42 AM

Re: Downloading from CBS.com


 
Thanks! This is working really well -- in fact, maybe too well. The videos are downloading at about 2.5x the file size I'm used to. I'm having trouble deciphering the various command line options I can issue to YouTube-dl, so is there a way I can find which file sizes are available and then specify which one I want to capture?

slim10 10-01-2014 10:52 AM

Re: Downloading from CBS.com


 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Agumon (Post 71100)
Thanks! This is working really well -- in fact, maybe too well. The videos are downloading at about 2.5x the file size I'm used to. I'm having trouble deciphering the various command line options I can issue to YouTube-dl, so is there a way I can find which file sizes are available and then specify which one I want to capture?
Use the "-F" (uppercase f) option to get a list of available formats. Choose a format code from that list and use it with the "-f" (lowercase f) option to download it.

denobis 10-01-2014 11:02 AM

Re: Downloading from CBS.com


 
Use atresdownloader, easy to download from cbs

save8lot 10-06-2014 08:43 AM

Re: Downloading from CBS.com


 
Just tried youtube-dl for the first time to download a CBS video. Downloaded the windows exe file but I keep getting errors about "falling back to generic information extractors" and "Unsupported URL" when i try to run it.

-Run command prompt as Admin
-Change directory to where the exe is saved
-Run "youtube-dl URL."

Where "URL" is:
Code:
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/watch/Under-the-Dome/7415074327007149112/332320323655/Under-The-Dome---Go-Now/videos
OR
Code:
http://uverse.com/tv/show/under-the-dome?play=c___ILJd_sqpUlIC
OR
Code:
http://www.dishanywhere.com/shows/under_the_dome_489223/episodes/4014109/1720242/
I get the same errors no matter what link I use. Not sure what i am doing wrong.

Perhaps this program only works for episodes hosts on CBS itself and not any of the videos that re-direct to cable sites (like my above links). In that case, I guess I could not download any of the "under the dome" episodes since they all seems to re-direct off of CBS dot com. Is that the case?

denobis 10-06-2014 01:00 PM

Re: Downloading from CBS.com


 
Quote:
Originally Posted by save8lot (Post 71238)
Just tried youtube-dl for the first time to download a CBS video. Downloaded the windows exe file but I keep getting errors about "falling back to generic information extractors" and "Unsupported URL" when i try to run it.

-Run command prompt as Admin
-Change directory to where the exe is saved
-Run "youtube-dl URL."

Where "URL" is:
Code:
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/watch/Under-the-Dome/7415074327007149112/332320323655/Under-The-Dome---Go-Now/videos
OR
Code:
http://uverse.com/tv/show/under-the-dome?play=c___ILJd_sqpUlIC
OR
Code:
http://www.dishanywhere.com/shows/under_the_dome_489223/episodes/4014109/1720242/
I get the same errors no matter what link I use. Not sure what i am doing wrong.

Perhaps this program only works for episodes hosts on CBS itself and not any of the videos that re-direct to cable sites (like my above links). In that case, I guess I could not download any of the "under the dome" episodes since they all seems to re-direct off of CBS dot com. Is that the case?
Atresdownloader supports now CBS-uverse links


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