# POD source for yturl man page. Convert with: # pod2man --stderr -s1 -cSlackBuilds.org -r1.20.0 yturl.pod > yturl.1 =pod =head1 NAME yturl - Get direct URLs to YouTube videos. =head1 SYNOPSIS yturl [-h] [-q QUALITY] videoID/url videoID/url is a YouTube url or bare video ID. =head1 DESCRIPTION By default, yturl prints the media URL to standard output. $ yturl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ' Using itag 43. http://r2---sn-uphxqvujvh-30al.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?source=[...] This means that you can do something like the following to watch it in mpv: $ mpv "$(yturl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ')" (also works with vlc, but for some reason not with mplayer) Or something like the following to download it (using curl): $ curl -Lo bill "$(yturl 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TCxE0bWQeQ')" =head1 OPTIONS =over 4 =item -h, --help show help message and exit =item -q QUALITY, --quality QUALITY specify quality, can be "low", "medium", "high", or an itag (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_formats) =back =cut