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viddl-rb:
Created by Marc Seeger (@rb2k)
Repo: http://github.com/rb2k/viddl-rb

Installation:
gem install viddl-rb

Usage:

Download a video:
viddl-rb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4

Download a video and extract the audio:
viddl-rb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4 --extract-audio

In both cases we'll name the output file according to the video title.

Youtube plugin specifics:

Download all videos on a playlist:
viddl-rb http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7E8DA0A515924126

Download all videos from a user:
viddl-rb http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector

Filter videos to download from a user/playlist:
viddl-rb http://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector --filter=internet/i

The --filter argument accepts a regular expression and will only download videos where the title matches the regex. The /i option does a case-insensitive search.

Requirements:

• curl/wget or the progress bar gem
• Nokogiri
• Mechanize
• ffmpeg if you want to extract audio tracks from the videos

Contributors:

• kl: Windows support (who knew!), bug fixes, veoh plugin, metacafe plugin
• divout aka Ivan K: blip.tv plugin, bugfixes
• Sniper: bugfixes
• Serabe aka Sergio Arbeo: packaging viddl as a binary
• laserlemon: Adding gemnasium images to readme