slackbuilds_ponce/network/yturl/yturl.pod

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# POD source for yturl man page. Convert with:
# pod2man --stderr -s1 -cSlackBuilds.org -r1.20.0 yturl.pod > yturl.1
=pod
=head1 NAME
yturl - Get direct URLs to YouTube videos.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
yturl [-h] [-q QUALITY] videoID/url
videoID/url is a YouTube url or bare video ID.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
By default, yturl prints the media URL to standard output.
$ yturl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ'
Using itag 43.
http://r2---sn-uphxqvujvh-30al.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?source=[...]
This means that you can do something like the following to watch it in
mpv:
$ mpv "$(yturl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ')"
(also works with vlc, but for some reason not with mplayer)
Or something like the following to download it (using curl):
$ curl -Lo bill "$(yturl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ')"
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
=item -h, --help
show help message and exit
=item -q QUALITY, --quality QUALITY
specify quality, can be "low", "medium", "high", or an itag (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_formats)
=back
=cut