Saturday, September 17, 2011

Easily downloading videos from YouTube

 
A bit frustrated from my internet connection, i mean, 15Mbp/s are all fun and games, but watching video clips, trailers etc on YouTube is slow (and if you take into account i only use HD it's mega-slow).

You can use tools such as SpeedBit to download the files, but they don't support HD for free and charge a yearly subscription of 15$ :-O

Using WireShark and a simple download manager such as FlashGet or even Wget you can download files from YouTube

After launching WireShark with your captured HTTP stream, look for a GET request to a relative path starting with /videoplayback.

Then start constructing your request:http://Host_Header/Get_Request
Configure your download manager to use the User-Agent you browser use (http://whatsmyuseragent.com/) and then pass that request to your download manager to start the download.

Note: This is relevant for all resolutions (up to 1080p)

Happy sniffing ^_^

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