Google Video (Archive)
| Google Video | |
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| 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. They also seem to work fine in Cygwin. Alternatively, you can run *nix in a virtual machine (given you have a fast enough machine).
- Download youtube-dl or from your distribution.
- 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
- If you're using youtube-dl from your distro, run "sudo updatedb; locate youtube-dl" to find the location of the command. Change DLSCRIPT to this.
- For older aria versions, some options need to be removed (--max-connection-per-server=16 --min-split-size=1M)
- You might need to upgrade your version from your system package manager, however the most recent version still may not suffice.
- Invoke googlegargle
Join the IRC channel to coordinate!
Cherry picking
The seed files do currently not include all videos, so you might want to save precious videos explicitely. To do that, add IDs to the "list" file in the same directory as the script:
docid=1545969803753962248 docid=1598207563000425446 docid=-1679753730105404298
and start ./googlegargle
Please add all docids to the cherry pick list, so that others won't download those videos for the second time! Caution: the cherry pick list is a list of videos you have downloaded, not a list of videos you'd like to have archived. That second list you can mark videos on you'd like to see saved at a higher than average priority!
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 dr_sweety
- seed_videos_a_related dr_sweety
- 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 DeCarabas
- seed_videos_j joethehum
- seed_videos_k aggroskater
- seed_videos_l yipdw
- seed_videos_m TJ__
- seed_videos_n ndurner
- seed_videos_o
- seed_videos_p Pneu
- seed_videos_q nomduclavier
- seed_videos_r Pentium
- seed_videos_s Pentium
- seed_videos_t joethehum
- seed_videos_u greg-g
- seed_videos_v masterme1
- seed_videos_w com_lab
- seed_videos_x Dark-Star
- seed_videos_y beremat
- seed_videos_z ksh
Tools
Youtube-DL
- http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html
- python youtube-dl googlevideourl
DocID scripts
GoogleGargle
Aria2c
- apt-add-repository ppa:t-tujikawa/ppa
- apt-get update
- apt-get install 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 ].