hat is it?
pornotube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from pornotube.com, based on the code of youtube-dl. Hence, it has the same requirements and features, and its syntax is very similar. The latest version is 2006.09.21. It's also licensed under the MIT License.
As with youtube-dl, I'll try to keep it updated if pornotube.com changes the way you access their videos, but the same circumstances apply. My contact information is at freshmeat.net. Usage instructions
In Windows, once you have installed the Python interpreter, the program should be runnable. If it's not, try to change its name to pornotube-dl.py (that is, add the .py extension). Then, copy it to somewhere in your PATH. I recommend you to keep it inside its own directory (probably inside the Program Files folder) and add that directory to your PATH.
In Unix, download it, give it execution permission and copy it to one of the PATH directories (typically, /usr/local/bin).
After that, you should be able to call it from the command line as pornotube-dl or pornotube-dl.py. I will use pornotube-dl in the following examples. Usage instructions are easy. Use pornotube-dl followed by a video URL. Example: pornotube-dl "http://www.pornotube.com/media.php?m=foobar". The video will be saved to the file foobar.flv in that example. As pornotube.com videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be flv. More usage tips
- You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in pornotube-dl -o vid.flv "http://www.pornotube.com/media.php?m=foobar".
- The simulate mode (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you prefer that option.
- The quiet mode (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.
- You can get the program version by calling it as pornotube-dl -v or pornotube-dl --version.
- For usage instructions, use pornotube-dl -h or pornotube-dl --help.
- You can cancel the program at any time pressing Ctrl+C. It may print some error lines saying something about KeyboardInterrupt. That's ok.