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Naveen
Naveen

Reputation: 683

Why does Curl ignore the given range?

I need to download a specific part of a Youtube video using Curl. (Let's say I want to download the first 2MB) I'm using the -r switch in Curl to achieve this. It works for non-youtube links, but the range I specify with -r is ignored for Youtube links. Curl downloads the entire video file, instead of downloading the chunk I want. How can I do this?
Thanks in advance!

(A sample code I used:)

curl --cookie "VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=EIBGUtRnRx4; demographics=d9e6a6b806922b989c443b57cc40cf59e3QDAAAAYWdlaRQAAAB0BgAAAGdlbmRlcnQBAAAAbTA=; s_tempdata-336183159=ei=xBC_UeOJLs6hkgXB7oGwDw&ved=CDcQvxs; s_tempdata-3430648675=ei=xBC_UeOJLs6hkgXB7oGwDw&ved=CEwQvxs; s_tempdata-877158463=ei=xBC_UeOJLs6hkgXB7oGwDw&ved=CF8Qvxs; s_tempdata-2333910030=ei=xBC_UeOJLs6hkgXB7oGwDw&ved=CHsQvxs; s_tempdata-3498387738=ei=xBC_UeOJLs6hkgXB7oGwDw&ved=CDIQvxs; s_tempdata-106278690=ved=CFcQvxs&ei=Q9LCUfqrJMK0kgX3ioGgBw; s_tempdata-1014563062=ved=CFoQvxs&ei=cxDEUf3OAsiekQXjiYCACA; d9ji4.resume=uFMMXRoSxnA:183; s_tempdata-1950472349=ei=ywzMUcPiJqekmQXrtIC4Cw&ved=CCMQvxs; s_tempdata-350957551=ei=UxDMUaWGJOTnmAWnmIHICg&ved=CDMQvxs; s_tempdata-3561588006=ei=MD_MUZyPGeTnmAX3koHgBw&ved=CDIQvxs; s_tempdata-1460032003=ei=1VDOUbSyIYjOmgXtyYGAAQ&ved=CA0Qvxs; s_tempdata-2286494229=ei=lFXOUfiMLerbmAXrgoG4Aw&ved=CIABEL8b; s_tempdata-1936772083=ei=lFXOUfiMLerbmAXrgoG4Aw&ved=CH0Qvxs; s_tempdata-190970993=feature=g-high-crv&ei=S9zOUZzYLsi3ygHS9YD4BA&ved=CIgBEPklKAE; __utma=27069237.288981257.1372343761.1372343761.1372511855.2; __utmb=27069237.5.10.1372511855; __utmz=27069237.1372343761.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmc=27069237; YSC=TwN0bcR_vzM; recently_watched_video_id_list=cc05ffe7b8a53d9d2dbcb9695b1b5354WwEAAABzCwAAAEhTZUltcWJWMzBz; ACTIVITY=1372523413722; PREF=f1=50000000&fv=11.2.202&al=en;" -o ~/Downloads/File.part -r 0-2000000 "http://r4---sn-nau-jhcl.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?id=1d27889aa6d5df4b&ipbits=8&factor=1.25&ms=au&mt=1372523374&fexp=925614%2C906370%2C912519%2C904825%2C900222%2C909546%2C906397%2C928201%2C929123%2C929915%2C929906%2C929907%2C929125%2C929127%2C925714%2C929917%2C929919%2C931202%2C912512%2C912515%2C912521%2C906838%2C906840%2C931913%2C904830%2C919373%2C933701%2C904122%2C900816%2C909421%2C912711%2C907228&mv=m&burst=40&algorithm=throttle-factor&expire=1372545822&sver=3&source=youtube&newshard=yes&cp=U0hWR1VPU19HTENONl9NSVdJOkNGQUpTdVJvVnY0&upn=a9WEy2DAZiY&ip=103.21.166.17&key=yt1&itag=34&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&signature=399599C4C262CCEAED9AB8AEA48A71DDFADFB7CF.08C556136636AFD52BE0318D3E4AECAC1ABFB7C5"

Upvotes: 3

Views: 449

Answers (1)

keyboardP
keyboardP

Reputation: 69372

It seems that the YouTube servers don't support the range parameter or they ignore it. From the cURL docs:

4.11 Why does my HTTP range requests return the full document?

Because the range may not be supported by the server, or the server may choose to ignore it and return the full document anyway.

Upvotes: 2

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