ntowakbh
August 7th, 2008, 07:09 AM
Purpose
On Linux, from what I've found, there is no easy way to download high quality videos from Veoh, by default. This will give a user two options that should make it much easier, and possible. One by adding a bookmark to Firefox that would download the video when clicked, or by adding a link to the page of the video. This should let you get the high quality videos, not just the low quality FLVs.
What is needed
You will need to download the zip file of VeohProxy (http://code.google.com/p/veohproxy/) to your home directory. Here is a direct download link for VeohProxy (http://veohproxy.googlecode.com/files/VeohProxy-1.4.zip), if you don't want to follow the external link for the download.
Firefox for the bookmark, currently I don't know for sure how to get the bookmark to work on Opera -- if someone can get the bookmark trick to work on Opera, message me, and I will update the tutorial.
Firefox, with the Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) extension, if you want to put the download link directly on the page. [The way I get the link working, is by using a user script that I made.]
Steps
First -- unzip the files. - Move the .zip file to the directory that you want to extract the VeohProxy folder to, then navigate to that folder with nautilus, right click the file, and hit extract. Make note of the directory that it is extracted to! On mine, I extracted the .zip file inside of my /home//bin folder, so the resulting folder for me is [U]/home/[username]/bin/VeohProxy-1.4
Second -- run VeohProxy on startup. - Add VeohProxy.py to your startup programs. In GNOME, go to the menu, and then "System->Preferences->Sessions" Then click "Add." The window that pops up should look something like this -
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6246/addstartuphr6.jpg
For the name, use "VeohProxy." For the command, use python and then the folder that was extracted from the zip file, and then add VeohProxy.py. For example, my command is -- python /home/ntowakhb/bin/VeohProxy-1.4/VeohProxy.py
Once you've done that, restart your computer, or log out and back in again, either one works.
Third -- Making the Bookmark
Open Firefox, and right click the bookmark bar, and select "New Bookmark..." You should get a pop up that looks something like this --
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5373/bookmarkol3.jpg
Name the bookmark whatever you want, but for the location, use -- javascript:document.location="http://ntowa.com/scripts/vproxyredir.html?video="+escape(window.location);
The webpage it redirects to, is a page that contains javascript that I wrote that should work specifically for this, if you have VeohProxy.
Here is the source code of the page for those who want it [if anyone would like to mirror the page, I would be happy to add their mirror to the tutorial in addition to my own] --
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function readgetvar(name)
{
var locser = location.search;
var searchquar = name + "=";
if(locser.search(searchquar) == -1)
{
return "Could not detect get variable.";
}
else
{
var starter = locser.search(searchquar) +searchquar.length;
var blah = new Array();
var count=0;
for(var i=starter;i<locser.length && locser.charAt(i) != "&" && locser.charAt(i) != "#";i++)
{
blah[count]=locser.charAt(i);
count++;
var result = blah.join("");
}
return unescape(result);
}
}
var vurl = readgetvar("video");
var vproxy = "http://127.0.0.1:64653/";
var searchquar = "/videos/";
var starter = vurl.search(searchquar) + searchquar.length;
var blah = new Array();
var count=0;
for(var i=starter;i<vurl.length && vurl.charAt(i) != "&" && vurl.charAt(i) != "#" && vurl.charAt(i) != "?";i++)
{
blah[count]=vurl.charAt(i);
count++;
var video = blah.join("");
}
document.location = vproxy+video;
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Now, simply click the bookmark while watching a video on Veoh, and you should get a download of the high quality video.
Fourth -- Making the link on Veoh videos.
Here is a screenshot of what the link will look like, I outlined the link in red on the screenshot to show you where it should appear --
Click here for screenshot (http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/1362/screengu9.jpg)(way too big for the forum)
As I mentioned earlier, you will need to have installed the Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) extension for Firefox. Once you have done that, just visit this link to a Greasemonkey script I made to add the video download link (http://ntowa.com/scripts/add_video_download_link_.user.js). It should popup that it is a greasemonkey script and ask you about installing it. Just click install.
Again, here is the source of the script for those that want it --
// ==UserScript==
// @name Add video download link for linux to veoh.
// @namespace http://ntowa.com
// @description Requires that you have veoh proxy installed and running.
// @include http://www.veoh.com/videos/*
// @include http://veoh.com/videos/*
// ==/UserScript==
var dlopt = document.getElementById('downloadOptions');
var link = '<a href="javascript:document.location=\'http://ntowa.com/scripts/vproxyredir.html?video=\'+escape(window.location);">Download on Linux</a>';
dlopt.innerHTML = link;
Now, simply click the link while watching a video, and you should get a download for the high quality video!
----
I hope this tutorial was able to help someone.
On Linux, from what I've found, there is no easy way to download high quality videos from Veoh, by default. This will give a user two options that should make it much easier, and possible. One by adding a bookmark to Firefox that would download the video when clicked, or by adding a link to the page of the video. This should let you get the high quality videos, not just the low quality FLVs.
What is needed
You will need to download the zip file of VeohProxy (http://code.google.com/p/veohproxy/) to your home directory. Here is a direct download link for VeohProxy (http://veohproxy.googlecode.com/files/VeohProxy-1.4.zip), if you don't want to follow the external link for the download.
Firefox for the bookmark, currently I don't know for sure how to get the bookmark to work on Opera -- if someone can get the bookmark trick to work on Opera, message me, and I will update the tutorial.
Firefox, with the Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) extension, if you want to put the download link directly on the page. [The way I get the link working, is by using a user script that I made.]
Steps
First -- unzip the files. - Move the .zip file to the directory that you want to extract the VeohProxy folder to, then navigate to that folder with nautilus, right click the file, and hit extract. Make note of the directory that it is extracted to! On mine, I extracted the .zip file inside of my /home//bin folder, so the resulting folder for me is [U]/home/[username]/bin/VeohProxy-1.4
Second -- run VeohProxy on startup. - Add VeohProxy.py to your startup programs. In GNOME, go to the menu, and then "System->Preferences->Sessions" Then click "Add." The window that pops up should look something like this -
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/6246/addstartuphr6.jpg
For the name, use "VeohProxy." For the command, use python and then the folder that was extracted from the zip file, and then add VeohProxy.py. For example, my command is -- python /home/ntowakhb/bin/VeohProxy-1.4/VeohProxy.py
Once you've done that, restart your computer, or log out and back in again, either one works.
Third -- Making the Bookmark
Open Firefox, and right click the bookmark bar, and select "New Bookmark..." You should get a pop up that looks something like this --
http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5373/bookmarkol3.jpg
Name the bookmark whatever you want, but for the location, use -- javascript:document.location="http://ntowa.com/scripts/vproxyredir.html?video="+escape(window.location);
The webpage it redirects to, is a page that contains javascript that I wrote that should work specifically for this, if you have VeohProxy.
Here is the source code of the page for those who want it [if anyone would like to mirror the page, I would be happy to add their mirror to the tutorial in addition to my own] --
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Redirecting...</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function readgetvar(name)
{
var locser = location.search;
var searchquar = name + "=";
if(locser.search(searchquar) == -1)
{
return "Could not detect get variable.";
}
else
{
var starter = locser.search(searchquar) +searchquar.length;
var blah = new Array();
var count=0;
for(var i=starter;i<locser.length && locser.charAt(i) != "&" && locser.charAt(i) != "#";i++)
{
blah[count]=locser.charAt(i);
count++;
var result = blah.join("");
}
return unescape(result);
}
}
var vurl = readgetvar("video");
var vproxy = "http://127.0.0.1:64653/";
var searchquar = "/videos/";
var starter = vurl.search(searchquar) + searchquar.length;
var blah = new Array();
var count=0;
for(var i=starter;i<vurl.length && vurl.charAt(i) != "&" && vurl.charAt(i) != "#" && vurl.charAt(i) != "?";i++)
{
blah[count]=vurl.charAt(i);
count++;
var video = blah.join("");
}
document.location = vproxy+video;
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Now, simply click the bookmark while watching a video on Veoh, and you should get a download of the high quality video.
Fourth -- Making the link on Veoh videos.
Here is a screenshot of what the link will look like, I outlined the link in red on the screenshot to show you where it should appear --
Click here for screenshot (http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/1362/screengu9.jpg)(way too big for the forum)
As I mentioned earlier, you will need to have installed the Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) extension for Firefox. Once you have done that, just visit this link to a Greasemonkey script I made to add the video download link (http://ntowa.com/scripts/add_video_download_link_.user.js). It should popup that it is a greasemonkey script and ask you about installing it. Just click install.
Again, here is the source of the script for those that want it --
// ==UserScript==
// @name Add video download link for linux to veoh.
// @namespace http://ntowa.com
// @description Requires that you have veoh proxy installed and running.
// @include http://www.veoh.com/videos/*
// @include http://veoh.com/videos/*
// ==/UserScript==
var dlopt = document.getElementById('downloadOptions');
var link = '<a href="javascript:document.location=\'http://ntowa.com/scripts/vproxyredir.html?video=\'+escape(window.location);">Download on Linux</a>';
dlopt.innerHTML = link;
Now, simply click the link while watching a video, and you should get a download for the high quality video!
----
I hope this tutorial was able to help someone.