using WWW::YouTube::Download?

squishy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've poked about Google looking for example code using this module. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything.

I know YouTube changes their formats periodically, but I haven't been able to find anything stating whether WWW::YouTube::Download is still viable or not. Given the information on the CPAN Webpage does anyone here know:

What is the form of the $video_id?
What is the form expected for callback?

Any insight shared would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Re: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Jun 19, 2012 at 00:59 UTC
Given the YouTube url `http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4NMoJcFd4`, the `$video_id` is `sP4NMoJcFd4`. UPDATE... The following was sufficient to d/l that video (and it played successfully using VLC). I also used some of the other calls successfully, so it seems like all is working well with this module. `#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use WWW::YouTube::Download; my $video_id = "sP4NMoJcFd4"; my $client = WWW::YouTube::Download->new; $client->download($video_id);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2012 at 18:56 UTC
I tried this code to download a youtube video and got the message: !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlZhEvsQmWQ&cc=1 download failed: 403 Forbidden at C:\...\perlDownloader.pl line 8 If you can offer some suggestions to prevent this negative response, I would appreciate.	[reply]
Re^3: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Sep 27, 2012 at 19:57 UTC
I re-ran the code I posted in June (that definitely worked in June) and I'm getting a 403 error, too. Perhaps YouTube is blocking downloading of videos in this manner.	[reply]
Re^4: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2012 at 06:57 UTC
Re^5: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by serkankara (Initiate) on Sep 28, 2012 at 20:27 UTC
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Re: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 18, 2012 at 21:45 UTC
Look inside and you'll see :) http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-YouTube-Download/MANIFEST (for starters see eg/cb.pl and eg/parallel.pl ) see also youtube-download see also http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/	[reply]
Re: using WWW::YouTube::Download? by linuxkid (Sexton) on Jun 19, 2012 at 20:31 UTC
Next time, please try reading the code first! --linuxkid imrunningoutofideas.co.cc	[reply]

--linuxkid