cclive

command line media download tool with low footprint

About

  1. cclive is a tool for downloading media from YouTube and similar websites. It has a low memory footprint compared to other existing tools. Supported platforms include Linux, *BSD systems. Check out the wiki, also.

Features

  1. * Retries interrupted downloads automatically
  2. * Runs as a background process if preferred
  3. * Use media ID, title, etc. in filenames
  4. * Supports many (40+) websites, see quvi
  5. * Configuration file support
  6. * Bandwidth throttle

News

  1. * 2012-03-03: cclive 0.7.9 released
  2. * 2011-11-26: cclive 0.7.8 released
  3. * 2011-10-16: cclive 0.7.7 released
  4. * 2011-09-12: cclive 0.7.6 released
  5. * 2011-09-03: Mailing lists created

Additional tools

  1. * grake, for scanning YouTube URLs
  2. * gcap, for downloading YouTube closed captions
  3. * umph, for parsing Youtube feeds (playlists, ...)