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 machines running and join us in IRC (EFNet #archiveteam / #googlegrape)

Joining the archival effort

The automatic scripts only work on FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows 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).

To help scrape videos

First of all, please add your name/nickname to this list, along with the storage and bandwidth you have available.

On Linux Systems

  • Download youtube-dl or from your distribution.
    • Make sure it's marked executable: chmod +x youtube-dl
  • Download and install wget for your distribution
  • Download googlegargle (Norc's updated, dupe-safe version of googlegargle is here.)
  • Get aria2 from your distribution (or if you're on Mac OS X, MacPorts) or SourceForge
    • note: check aria2 dependencies in the readme
  • 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 "which youtube-dl" or "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.
  • Change the ARIA variable in the script to the location of your ARIA executable. Usually (ubuntu) at /usr/bin/aria2c, change ARIA variable to this.
    • To know where aria2 is located you can use either of these commands:
      • "sudo updatedb; locate aria2"
      • "which aria2" / "which aria2c"
  • Invoke googlegargle
  • Check with your OS settings to insure that your computer will not auto suspend or sleep after long periods of inactivity.

On Windows Systems

On Solaris Systems

The scripts are known to work on OpenIndiana r147. You'll have to install aria2c and youtube-dl from source, but other than that the googlegargle script should work without modifications.

Don't forget to join the IRC channel to coordinate who's getting what!

To help index videos (low bandwidth/storage)

On Linux Systems

Note: This will only work on machines with X running. To run it on a headless server, use Xvfb (virtual framebuffer). On Ubuntu/Debian: 'apt-get install xvfb', then use xvfb-run to start your main script. An X server will now be made available to any programs that need it.

  • Get the tools needed to build phantomjs (a headless web browser) and run the script: Qt WebKit, git, and curl. On Debian or Ubuntu Maverick and up, install the packages build-essential, curl, git, libqtwebkit4, libqtwebkit-dev, and libqt4-dev by issuing the command:
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git libqtwebkit4 libqtwebkit-dev libqt4-dev

On Ubuntu Lucid 10.04: Since Lucid comes with Qt4.6, not the required 4.7, you may need to add a ppa before trying to install the needed packages.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports && sudo apt-get update

Additionally, in Lucid, the git package is named git-core, so:

sudo apt-get install git-core

or, on Fedora:

sudo yum install curl git qt-webkit qt-webkit-devel qt-devel
  • Run the following command to get the phantomjs source code:
git clone https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
  • Enter the directory that was just created by using the following command:
cd phantomjs
  • Build phantomjs by issuing the command:
qmake && make -j2
  • Move the phantomjs binary somewhere in your path by issuing the command:
cd bin && sudo mv ./phantomjs /usr/local/bin
  • Extract the above downloaded file (Right-click and Extract To.. or use tar -zxvf ./google_video_related.tar.gz)
  • In a terminal, navigate to the folder where you extracted the google_video_related file (above) and run the following command to help scrape Google Video:
while : ; do ./related.sh ; done

On Windows Systems

Grab the following archive which comes with full instructions: http://nstrom.chaosnet.org/google_video_related_win.zip

Once the script's running simply leave it running and head on over to #ggtesting on EFnet (IRC) if you need any assistance or in case the script has any issues. The script will contact the server to get a page to index the related video links, do that indexing, send back the results and repeat! It takes very little processing and bandwidth on your end (a couple of kb/sec, if that).

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 (docid URL parameter of the Google Video) to the "list" file in the same directory as the script, for example:

docid=1545969803753962248
docid=1598207563000425446
docid=-1679753730105404298

and start ./googlegargle

To request a cherrypick, add it to this list: http://piratepad.net/gvspecificrequests

If you download something from that list, add its docid to http://piratepad.net/TL7KDN8821 so that others won't download those videos for the second time.

Custom keyword searches

Linux Bash Command

If you want to grab videos by your own custom keyword search term, you can use this command:

SEARCH='my+search+term';for i in `seq 0 10 990 `;do curl -A "AT, Bitches" "http://www.google.com/search?q=$SEARCH+site:video.google.com&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=vid&start=$i&sa=N"|grep -o "docid=[0-9-]*"|sort -u|tee -a seed_videos_$SEARCH;done

Change "my+search+term" to your search term, and remember to use a plus sign instead of spaces (or url encode the text for other special characters).

Linux Bash Script

An alternative search script which sorts and dedupes results and can restrict searches to long, medium and short videos is here.

Searches Undertaken

Since we want to minimize overlap, here are some search terms that are already in progress of being downloaded (and the user who downloads them):

  • Darkstar: "rare", "vintage", "commercial"
  • NomDuClavier: "douglas adams", "richard dawkins", "charles darwin", "michio kaku", "brian cox", "vernor vinge", "carl sagan", "simon singh"
  • oli: "australia history"
  • dnova: "microelectronics"
  • Lightblb: "documentary" (medium and long videos), "lecture" (medium and long videos), "atheism" (medium & long), "interview" (long)
  • ttuttle: "astronomy"
  • crackbab1: "ecology"
  • tj__: "army"

Also check the specificrequest PiratePad under Cherry Picking on this page.

Deduplication

To avoid downloading videos that have already been downloaded by others,

  • check if you have SQLite installed ("which sqlite3")
  • download the gv-dedup scripts
  • initialize a fresh database with "./gv-list-create.sh"
  • download all seed lists on this page (plus the cherry picks) and import them with "./gv-list-import.sh seed_file" (or "find seeds/* -exec ./gv-list-import.sh {} \;")
  • invoke "./gv-list-dedup.sh seed_videos_foo > list" to filter already downloaded videos from your custom seed list
  • also import your custom seed file with "./gv-list-import.sh list"

A pre-filled database (slightly outdated as of Apr 19, 00:00:00 CEST) is available.

Seed List Downloads

Custom searches, suggestions...

  • PLEASE add your custom searches and their details to this table!
  • Words suggestions: conference, hack, wiki, linux, creative commons, part Either already in the table or added to the BOINC client
talk, interview, documentary, public domain, subtitles,

Years

1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Countries

AFGHANISTAN, ÅLAND+ISLANDS, ALBANIA, ALGERIA, AMERICAN+SAMOA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, ANGUILLA, ANTARCTICA, ANTIGUA+AND+BARBUDA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, AUSTRALIA, AUSTRIA, AZERBAIJAN, BAHAMAS, BAHRAIN, BANGLADESH, BARBADOS, BELARUS, BELGIUM, BELIZE, BENIN, BERMUDA, BHUTAN, BOLIVIA,+PLURINATIONAL+STATE+OF, BONAIRE,+SAINT+EUSTATIUS+AND+SABA, BOSNIA+AND+HERZEGOVINA, BOTSWANA, BOUVET+ISLAND, BRAZIL, BRITISH+INDIAN+OCEAN+TERRITORY, BRUNEI+DARUSSALAM, BULGARIA, BURKINA+FASO, BURUNDI, CAMBODIA, CAMEROON, CANADA, CAPE+VERDE, CAYMAN+ISLANDS, CENTRAL+AFRICAN+REPUBLIC, CHAD, CHILE, CHINA, CHRISTMAS+ISLAND, COCOS+(KEELING)+ISLANDS, COLOMBIA, COMOROS, CONGO, CONGO, COOK+ISLANDS, COSTA+RICA, CÔTE+D'IVOIRE, CROATIA, CUBA, CURAÇAO, CYPRUS, CZECH+REPUBLIC, DENMARK, DJIBOUTI, DOMINICA, DOMINICAN+REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EGYPT, EL+SALVADOR, EQUATORIAL+GUINEA, ERITREA, ESTONIA, ETHIOPIA, FALKLAND+ISLANDS+(MALVINAS), FAROE+ISLANDS, FIJI, FINLAND, FRANCE, FRENCH+GUIANA, FRENCH+POLYNESIA, FRENCH+SOUTHERN+TERRITORIES, GABON, GAMBIA, GEORGIA, GERMANY, GHANA, GIBRALTAR, GREECE, GREENLAND, GRENADA, GUADELOUPE, GUAM, GUATEMALA, GUERNSEY, GUINEA, GUINEA-BISSAU, GUYANA, HAITI, HEARD+ISLAND+AND+MCDONALD+ISLANDS, HOLY+SEE+(VATICAN+CITY+STATE), HONDURAS, HONG+KONG, HUNGARY, ICELAND, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, IRELAND, ISLE+OF+MAN, ISRAEL, ITALY, JAMAICA, JAPAN, JERSEY, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN, KENYA, KIRIBATI, KOREA, KUWAIT, KYRGYZSTAN, LAO, LATVIA, LEBANON, LESOTHO, LIBERIA, LIBYAN+ARAB+JAMAHIRIYA, LIECHTENSTEIN, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, MACAO, MACEDONIA, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, MALAYSIA, MALDIVES, MALI, MALTA, MARSHALL+ISLANDS, MARTINIQUE, MAURITANIA, MAURITIUS, MAYOTTE, MEXICO, MICRONESIA,+FEDERATED+STATES+OF, MOLDOVA, MONACO, MONGOLIA, MONTENEGRO, MONTSERRAT, MOROCCO, MOZAMBIQUE, MYANMAR, NAMIBIA, NAURU, NEPAL, NETHERLANDS, NEW+CALEDONIA, NEW+ZEALAND, NICARAGUA, NIGER, NIGERIA, NIUE, NORFOLK+ISLAND, NORTHERN+MARIANA+ISLANDS, NORWAY, OMAN, PAKISTAN, PALAU, PALESTINIAN+TERRITORY,+OCCUPIED, PANAMA, PAPUA+NEW+GUINEA, PARAGUAY, PERU, PHILIPPINES, PITCAIRN, POLAND, PORTUGAL, PUERTO+RICO, QATAR, RÉUNION, ROMANIA, RUSSIAN+FEDERATION, RWANDA, SAINT+BARTHÉLEMY, SAINT+HELENA,+ASCENSION+AND+TRISTAN+DA+CUNHA, SAINT+KITTS+AND+NEVIS, SAINT+LUCIA, SAINT+MARTIN+(FRENCH+PART), SAINT+PIERRE+AND+MIQUELON, SAINT+VINCENT+AND+THE+GRENADINES, SAMOA, SAN+MARINO, SAO+TOME+AND+PRINCIPE, SAUDI+ARABIA, SENEGAL, SERBIA, SEYCHELLES, SIERRA+LEONE, SINGAPORE, SINT+MAARTEN+(DUTCH+PART), SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SOLOMON+ISLANDS, SOMALIA, SOUTH+AFRICA, SOUTH+GEORGIA+AND+THE+SOUTH+SANDWICH+ISLANDS, SPAIN, SRI+LANKA, SUDAN, SURINAME, SVALBARD+AND+JAN+MAYEN, SWAZILAND, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, SYRIA, TAIWAN, TAJIKISTAN, TANZANIA, THAILAND, TIMOR-LESTE, TOGO, TOKELAU, TONGA, TRINIDAD+AND+TOBAGO, TUNISIA, TURKEY, TURKMENISTAN, TURKS+AND+CAICOS+ISLANDS, TUVALU, UGANDA, UKRAINE, UNITED+ARAB+EMIRATES, UNITED+KINGDOM, UNITED+STATES, UNITED+STATES+MINOR+OUTLYING+ISLANDS, URUGUAY, UZBEKISTAN, VANUATU, VENEZUELA, VIET+NAM, VIRGIN+ISLANDS,+BRITISH, VIRGIN+ISLANDS,+U.S., WALLIS+AND+FUTUNA, WESTERN+SAHARA, YEMEN, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE

Table

Legend

     Uploaded to Archive.org
     Done/Complete with no errors
     Done/Complete with errors
     In progress
     Partially claimed and in progress
     Not claimed
     Unknown status (If you know please edit)
Seed list Videos (lines) Downloader Complete? (Size?)
seed_videos_ecology 890 crackbab1
seed_videos_meme 996 yipdw 483/999, 6.5 GB
seed_videos_defcon 822 ndurner done
seed_videos_ml_documentary_dedupe 1975 Lightblb, Papyrus, NomDuClavier 0 completed chunks of 4 (4 claimed)
Lightblb: aa
Papyrus: ab
NomDuClavier: ac, ad
seed_videos_ml_lecture_dedupe 1898 Lightblb, gribozavr, kn100 1 completed chunks of 4 (4 claimed)
Lightblb: aa ab

gribozavr: ad (complete, 28Gb)
kn100: ac (in progress)

seed_videos_ml_atheism_dedupe 698 norc, Mqrius 2 complete of 2
norc: ab done (16G), Mqrius: aa done (41GB).
seed_videos_l_interview_dedupe 986 Pentium100, wgfreewill Done (136GB)
seed_videos_2_a 25,761 swebb 8.6G (4/17/2011)
seed_videos_2_k 19,266 (24,242) Lightblb, ARc[Clone, crackbab1, Pentium100, Mqrius, arketype, Darkstar 49 chunks completed of 49

Lightblb: aa ab ac ad ae (Done: 68GB)
crackbab1: af,ak,al (Done: 16GB)
Mqrius: Done: ag - ak, am - ao, aq - as: 81 billion bytes.
(Errors: 8140990496183661566, 3602820803563530100, 305824290212962756, 4662407464242191178, 1966892422853997036, 2337004030985954962, 1338452982534754821, 10726218902867294)
arketype: ap (Done: 17GB)
(Errors: 2781869234442161475, 3684594607388096414)
Pentium100: at-az (complete, 42.8GB), ba-bb (complete, 14.1GB)
Darkstar: bc bd be (complete)
ARc[Clone: bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw (all done)

seed_videos_2_l 22,641 ndurner, wgfreewill Split 46 chunks of 500 videos each
ndurner: aa done;
wgfreewill - 8k videos of 22k, finished april 20th.
seed_videos_2_m 24,465 Jade Falcon Jade @ 2854/24465 ~77G and counting...(100 concurrent threads!)
balrog running in reverse
seed_videos_2_o 25,049 travelinlibrarian Split 51 chunks of 500 videos each

travelinlibrarian 263/1-500
perfinion done seed_videos_2_ob[n-y] perfinion grabbing seed_videos_2_[a-m]

seed_videos_2_p 23,713 oli, Xentac, db48x, otro, Mqrius, Pentium100 48 chunks

oli: paa to pah (complete, 90GB)
Mqrius: Done: pak - pam: 27 GB
Pentium100: pan-pav
Xentac: bt bu bv bp bo bm bq br bg bn (done), bg-br, as-av
db48x: pbu (1.44GB, finished), pbv (187MB, finished), pba-pbf (34.4GB @ 41%)
otro: pbs
nstrom: paw (complete, 15GB)
ryan__: pax/pay/paz (WIP)
Darkstar: pai, paj

seed_videos_2_q 17,727 DoubleJ
seed_videos_2_t 25,301 businux Split 51 chunks of 500 videos each 961/25,301 3.79% 33GB
seed_videos_2_u 23,528 barbich, negge 30 chunks complete of 48 (all 48 claimed)

barbich: finished 0 to 29 (100% done, 370G)
negge: currently processing 30 to 47 (7033/8530 done)

seed_videos_2_w 21,732 nickmoorman Split] 0 chunks completed of 34 (34 claimed0

nickmoorman: aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj
zachtib: ak al am an ao
Dr.Sweety: ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh (Currently in progress)

seed_videos_2_x 19,733 ksh 100% / 78GB

Need to check for errors!
After this is checked, if there are no errors, change to green and remove this line.

seed_videos_2_y 20,965 negge Done (216GB)
seed_videos_2_z 18,877 flare
seed_videos_a 1000 Dr.Sweety Currently in progress (9%), should be finished in 1-2 days (slow download fixed (no --max-connections), downloading with 1MBps now)
seed_videos_a_related This list contain errors Dr.Sweety Done, 44G total. ~1097 out of 1284 seem to be DocIDs, rest is text. Some of the DocIDs are broken (see below). What about the errors, will there be an updated list?
seed_videos_b 999 bjwebb 136/999
seed_videos_c 981 dnova Done (40.2GB)
seed_videos_d 999 nomduclav complete
seed_videos_e 999 nomduclav complete
seed_videos_f 999 DoubleJ Done (25GB)
seed_videos_g 999 dnova Done (30.9GB)
one bad id=7751522177274361392
seed_videos_h 999 ARc[Clone Done
seed_videos_i 999 DeCarabas 915/999
seed_videos_j 999 joethehuman Done (36.7 GB)
seed_videos_k 999 aggroskater 803/999 (22.9 GB so far)
seed_videos_l 999 yipdw Done (58 GB); six bad IDs: -1165561225258043258, 1922748009661857239, 300163955057959602, -7110898118644169273, -7942619273555709195, 8543705644990106023
seed_videos_m 999 TJ__ Done (34.7GB)
seed_videos_n 999 ndurner Done (38 GB)
seed_videos_o 999 com_lab, grelbar (list) ~38GB (com_lab) already uploaded,
should be done, check when i get home (grelbar)
seed_videos_p 999 Pneu
seed_videos_q 996 nomduclavier Done (~24Gb)
seed_videos_r 996 Pentium Done (26.5GB), two bad IDs (-6997682955012239023, -5475489738249304784)
seed_videos_s 999 Pentium Done (48.9GB), two bad IDs (2103424227166759427, -8954969329395485241)
seed_videos_t 999 joethehuman Done (56.8 GB) Will check for errors later
seed_videos_u 999 perfinion, 0xDEADBEEF, norc 0xDEADBEEF 516/1000 24GB. norc 500-1000 done, 24GB. Perfinion done, 44GB.
seed_videos_v 999 masterme1 162/999 (~11GB)
seed_videos_w 1000 com_lab Done (~5.7GB)
seed_videos_x 1000 Dark-Star Done (~33GB)
seed_videos_y 1000 beremat 613/1000, (~37.76GB)
seed_videos_z 1000 ksh Done (27GB)
"microelectronics",
"circuit+design",
"microprocessor",
"chiptune",
"electrical+engineering",
"hardware+hacking",
"unboxing",
"demoscene",
1267 dnova Done (33.9GB)
"transistor",
"tonawanda",
"micron",
"gallium",
"nanometer",
"femtosecond",
"qubit",
"integrated+circuit"
343 dnova Done (7.1GB)
"singularity" 174 db48x completed, 12.57GB (list created at 8am UTC April 18th 2011)
"Feynman" 28 db48x completed, 2.20GB (list created at 9am UTC April 18th 2011)
"police" 998 lutostag (list created at 8am UTC April 18th 2011)
"eliezer" 150 (1000) norc completed, 6.8G (list created at 8am UTC April 18th 2011)
"obama" 1000 ryan__ 302/1000 as of 04-19-2011 00:51 EDT (still WIP) (list created at 8am UTC April 18th 2011)
"cia" 999 ndurner (list created at 8am UTC April 18th 2011)
"charlie" 1000 ryan__ 120/1000 as of 04-19-2011 00:51 EDT (still WIP) (list created at 8am UTC April 18th 2011)
IDs from the metafilter thread 28 db48x completed, 6.17GB (list created at 9am UTC April 18th 2011)
IDs from the reddit thread 106 ndurner (list created at 9am UTC April 18th 2011)
"rare" ~3100 Darkstar done (~70gb)
"vintage"
"commercial"
[http://pastebin.com/ZkzNmwEW "douglas adams",
"richard dawkins",
"charles darwin"
NomDuClavier] 513 videos, done (one de-duped list for the 3 terms)
"australia history"
"indigenous aboriginal australia"
1659 oli complete
"linux" 1641 xtat Just started
"Bugs Bunny" 153 stack,wgfreewill Done, 2.7GB
"rodney mullen" 176 com_lab Done, 1.7GB
"tech talks" 946 tahu in progress, 215 videos, 22GB, 2011-04-19 10:10:03 UTC
"rick astley" 17 db48x completed, 272.8MB (grabbed 13:00 UTC April 18th 2011)
"CERN" 912 vled Done
multiple: "michio kaku",
"brian cox",
"vernor vinge",
"carl sagan",
"simon singh"
176 nomduclavier done
"intel",
"amd"
1547 leftfield In progress -leftfield I'd love if someone could take this one. -dnova
"foia" 89 com_lab Done, 4.1GB
"creative commons" 968 aikidork ~15% grabbed, ~10% rsync (Tue Apr 19 00:17:53 UTC 2011)
"TED" 1000 vled w/ problems
"programming" 1546 Xentac In Progress
"military", "army", "navy", "air force", "marine corps" 3108 tj__ & ksh In Progress (5%)
"fiddle", "banjo", "old time music" 921 RJL20 In Progress (~
"silent+film" 1000 dericed In Progress
"industrial" 1584 Archive242 In Progress
(pretty much) every valid GV link on MetaFilter 1675 RJL20 In Progress (~112730M / Errors: 28)
http://hubpages.com/hub/The_Best_of_GoogleVideo 122 Lightblb In Progress
Total >324,788 Archive Team >2.24 TB (Apr. 19, 11:37:13 UTC)

Broken DocIDs

DocID Title list
-4313176927520589553 Ferrari 320 km/h SelMcKenzie seed_videos_h
710915802292429594 Triple H-Best Pedigree Ever seed_videos_h
919675995190477263 404s seed_videos_h
-7433458566080701467 404s seed_videos_2_k
7476314005948269525 Tan Tay Du Ky 2 tap 1 phan 2 seed_videos_2_k
1310034078921227326 Presentatie H. van Garderen seed_videos_h
-8196546459051063200 Ethiopia - Ethiopian Talk Show - Dr. Kinfe M Kassaye seed_videos_m
6012309833489564165 I'm gonna miss you forever seed_videos_m
1006201176909432045 Nick "KNUCKLEHEAD" Thomas Learning to Ride A KX 65 seed_videos_2_k_br
9013618753646293166 TooSexii seed_videos_m
4607644763702261746 Most Haunted seed_videos_m
910327017359455024 404s seed_videos_2_k_br
-3505183273546479430 Top 10 Dunkers in Slam Dunk Contest History by www.todonba.mx.kz seed_videos_2_k_bu
515155312540224448 Prof. Stephen Berk - The Six Day War -- (Only downloads 106MB & manual seek fails) seed_videos_m
8233620694803027158 Tien Kiem Ky Hiep 12a seed_videos_2_k_bs
-7026671761719496982 KV Kortrijk - Virton: kans Vervaeke seed_videos_2_k_bo
4744936758707683681 404s seed_videos_2_k_bo
-4138015874145288917 Irvine City Council Regular Meeting -- content too short (expected 880173643 bytes and served 871) seed_videos_2_k_bo
1751753922865083288 Lou Dobbs - Bill Gates Testifies to Senate: Part 2 seed_videos_h
-1847242336625060764 404s seed_videos_h
-840074924615574683 H.O.T. TV EPISODE 7 seed_videos_h
5450039563312738134 seed_videos_2_o
2740779495236816438 seed_videos_2_o
8240553330007645065 404 "rick astley"
2776148046666235174 404 seed_videos_d
4641809537228296381 404 seed_videos_
-4718427583805445551 404 seed_videos_e
5588388288256218328 404 seed_videos_d
-1413491257698089214 Redirects to http://www.khou.com/news/119535529.html seed_videos_a_related
1895753595163256038 Redirects to http://tv.sky.com/martina-my-toughest-opponent seed_videos_a_related
-4941694769105315227 Redirects to http://saratoga-north.ynn.com/content/headlines/524274/governor-visit-s-nation-s-capitol/ seed_videos_a_related
-7773409926173229653 Redirects to http://www.zacks.com/commentary/15486/Value+Stock+Picks-August+24,+2010 seed_videos_a_related
7391058183663855490 Redirects to http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81158874/ seed_videos_a_related
-4381742157481868130 Redirects to http://arcade.modemhelp.net/play-3613-Stealing_A_Van.html seed_videos_a_related
-1554641026467581780 Redirects to http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u158/browneydgurl1212/?action=view&current=meganstealinghashbrown.mp4 seed_videos_a_related
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Tools

Youtube-DL

DocID scripts

GoogleGargle

Aria2c (APT)

Aria2c (RPM)

Fedora and CentOS have RPMs available.

  • yum install aria2

Searcher

Bash script to search for terms on Google Video, includes dedupe and ability to restrict search by video length.

predict-download-size

Bash script to read a docid list and find out the total size of the listed videos. Requires youtube-dl, curl.

Troubleshooting

  • /usr/bin/aria2c: unrecognized option '--max-connection-per-server=16'
    • The Aria version available in many linux distributions is not up to date and will throw errors.
    • To fix this remove the option from the goooglegargle script line starting with "ARIAOPTIONS="
  • User 'negge' on IRC reports the following ARIA command line works for Debian Squeeze with ext4 filesystem,
    • --max-overall-download-limit=1024M --file-allocation=falloc --max-connection-per-server=4 --min-split-size=1M --log-level=notice --remote-time=true
  • or for ext3 on Debian Squeeze,
    • --max-overall-download-limit=1024M --file-allocation=prealloc --max-connection-per-server=4 --min-split-size=1M --log-level=notice --remote-time=true

FAQ

  • Is there any estimate on how many videos are on Google Video?
    • Wikipedia said it has 2,500,000 videos, a semi-official Google blog mentioned 2.8M
  • Is there anything about grabbing metadata for vids? like descriptions?
    • Googlegrape does that, it saves the html of the video download page
  • What happens to the data after you claim a seed on the wiki and download it?
    • We've got 140TB of space allocated to us on archive.org, and can get more
  • Is there already some space where it can be uploaded to?
    • Not yet, the effort is still young and things take time to organize.
  • How can I split seed files if I want to download fewer videos or share the task with others?
    • On *nix machines use: split --lines=500 [seedfile] [seedfile] to create a set of files each 500 lines in length in the form seedfileaa seedfileab ... etc.
  • How can I check if there are duplicates in a seed file?
    • On *nix machines use: sort [infile] | uniq -d to show all duplicates.
  • How can I remove duplicates from a seed file before I start to use it?
    • On *nix machines use: sort [infile] | uniq -u > [outfile] to produce a new seed file with duplicates removed.

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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