Download Flash Based videos in ubuntu

Many times we are watching some videos on some flash based hosting site(youtube) and wants to download it, so that we can play it offline , this helps us to watch the content when we dont have access to internet and also eliminate the need to always keep updating our flash based plugin for browser whenever(very often)it complains . Today to facilitates this we are introducing a tool which is specially designed for debian platforms e.g ubuntu .

you can visit the project site here,  Following are the instructions .

1. Install get-flash-videos in Ubuntu
   1. Open command prompt in ubuntu system.
   2. sudo apt-get install libwww-mechanize-perl libxml-simple-perl
   3. wget http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/files/get-flash-videos_1.21-1_all.deb
   4. sudo dpkg -i get-flash-videos_1.21-1_all.deb 
2. get-flash-videos Syntax
   1. get_flash_videos url..
3. Usage Examples
   1. Play a video get_flash_video http://www.site.com/video
   2. Download a video    get_flash_videos “http://some.site/video?f=1&v=1234“  note quotes are required for URLs with special characters like ‘&’ )
   3. Play the URL on the clipboard (UNIX):     xclip -o | xargs get_flash_videos -y –p
   4. Play the first video matching “Open Source”: get_flash_videos -y -p Open Source
   5. Install a plugin:get_flash_videos –add-plugin http://website.com/PluginName.pm

i also tried this on my ubuntu box and it works flawlessly , following is the the picture depicting thousand words.

i played some video from you tube and it download as well as played it well.

finally the websites supported are

• YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph …), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv.
• it also includes a ‘generic’ method which works on many other sites.

Do remember to share your experiences with me in comments section.