August 21, 2007
atacama telescope
Eric has put up some remarkable pictures of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope site in Cerro Toco, Chile. At 17,030 feet above sea level, it's currently the highest permanent, ground-based telescope in the world.
Dude... that script is fantastic. Was it hard to do? You should get it to find the video names have it name the files automatically. Or not... like if you're busy and stuff. I was this close (I'm holding my fore finger and thumb a half inch apart) to coming to New York this weekend... but alas I'm not.
Posted by: Jeff L at August 30, 2007 09:54 PMNope, I'm afraid to say the script was pretty trivial, based on a perl one-liner (!) found here: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/downloading-youtube-videos-with-a-perl-one-liner/. The YouTube player actually pulls the flv from elsewhere on the site. You just have to do a little parsing and then follow some redirects to find out where.
Unfortunately, I don't think naming the download will work, since the script ultimately just generates a redirect to the flv's YouTube url, and YouTube doesn't bother giving it a descriptive name. Unless one were to *proxy* to YouTube...we don't wanna go there. ;)
Posted by: Alan at August 31, 2007 03:10 PM