Google Video (Archive)

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Google Video
Video logo lg.gif
URL http://video.google.com
Status Closing in 2011-04-29[1]
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Google Video is a video sharing website which is shutting down.

If you want to save your own videos, see the announcement and tools below.

If you want to help archive Google Video, get some Linux machines running and join us in IRC (EFNet #archiveteam / #googlegrape)

Joining the archival effort

The automatic scripts only work on Linux and maybe OS X.

  • Download youtube-dl
  • Download googlegargle
  • Get aria2 (from your distribution or SourceForge
  • Pick a seed list from below, save it under the filename "list" and add your name to the list (you will need a wiki account)
  • change the first few lines of the googlegargle script to reflect your installation
  • for older aria versions, some options need to be removed (--max-connection-per-server=16 --min-split-size=1M)
  • invoke googlegargle

Join the IRC channel to coordinate!

Seed List Downloads

http://199.48.254.90/at/seeds/

  • seed_videos_2_a
  • seed_videos_2_k
  • seed_videos_2_l
  • seed_videos_2_m
  • seed_videos_2_o
  • seed_videos_2_p
  • seed_videos_2_q
  • seed_videos_2_t
  • seed_videos_2_u
  • seed_videos_2_w
  • seed_videos_2_x
  • seed_videos_2_y
  • seed_videos_2_z
  • seed_videos_a
  • seed_videos_a_related
  • seed_videos_b bjwebb
  • seed_videos_c
  • seed_videos_d
  • seed_videos_e
  • seed_videos_f doublej
  • seed_videos_g
  • seed_videos_h ARc[Clone
  • seed_videos_i
  • seed_videos_j joethehum
  • seed_videos_k
  • seed_videos_l
  • seed_videos_m
  • seed_videos_n ndurner
  • seed_videos_o
  • seed_videos_p
  • seed_videos_q nomduclavier
  • seed_videos_r
  • seed_videos_s
  • seed_videos_t
  • seed_videos_u
  • seed_videos_v
  • seed_videos_w com_lab
  • seed_videos_x Dark-Star
  • seed_videos_y beremat
  • seed_videos_z ksh

Tools

Youtube-DL

DocID scripts

GoogleGargle

Aria2c

Announcement: Uploaded video content no longer available

On April 29, 2011 videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We’ve added a Download button to the Video Status page, so you can download videos that you want to save. If you don’t want to download your videos, you don’t need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)

How do I download videos that I've uploaded?

On the Video Status page, click Download Video located on the right side of each of your videos in the "Actions" column.Once a video has been downloaded, an "Already Downloaded" message will appear. If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all. This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

I've downloaded my videos. Now what do I do with these FLV files?

FLV files are videos that have been encoded in the Flash Video Format. You can upload your videos in FLV format to other video hosting sites like YouTube or Picassa Web Albums. If you would like to playback your videos on your computer and they don’t seem to be working, you might need to install an FLV player. In order to find an FLV player to install, try doing a Google search for [ FLV player ].

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