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Johnny
Johnny

Reputation: 879

YouTube FLV download link

What is the current way to download a YouTube video in FLV format using C#/.Net? (if there is any) (the idea is to make it purely desktop based)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3068

Answers (3)

Dave Rager
Dave Rager

Reputation: 8150

The "correct" way is to use their published api:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/getting_started

Update:

You might find this interesting. Here's a class to add missing download support to the APIs:

http://ytdownloadextension.codeplex.com/

Upvotes: 1

Zaksh
Zaksh

Reputation: 963

Go to youtube.com and open any video then right click on the page and select viewsource search for playerConfig you will see it is assigned with a json, it contains all the infortmation you needed. For further information you can take a look at youtubeFisher it is an opensource software so you can take a look at the source code and get your required info.

Upvotes: 3

Lukasz Madon
Lukasz Madon

Reputation: 14994

First solution is to use a webservice:

Make a http request (WebClient class is a good one) to http://www.icyvideo.com with the url parameter e.g. http://www.icyvideo.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2Z4m4lnjxkY

Grep the site for links "Download FLY" and download the movie.

Problem with this solution is that you have to use that website and the location of the links may change. It's very quick to set up, though.

Upvotes: 2

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