A script to watch/record videos from the catch-up TV site http://videos.arte.tv - No flash-plugin required: just use your favorite player - Internet lag? just record the video and play it later. WARNING: These videos are **copyrighted by ARTE**. I guess that you are **NOT** free to *share*, *sell* or *modify* those videos ! You will not be able to view videos if you are outside these countries: France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. Some videos that are restricted to a mature audience (+18) are only visible between 23:00 and 05:00. NOTES: Most of the downloaded videos are in the flv format and contains h264/aac streams. The script attempts to automatically convert to mp4 format without reencoding, if you have ffmpeg installed. REQUIREMENTS * python 2.7 (but not python 3) * rtmpdump * beautifulsoup It is recommanded to use the 3.0.x or the 3.2.x version of beautifulsoup but not the 3.1.x version. The 3.1.x version does not parse very well some html from videos.arte.tv. * a video player like mplayer, vlc, xine or totem to use the play command. Or add your own player in the script. Help is provided FLATTR You can show your support for this little software: - You can flattr at http://flattr.com/thing/176287/arteVIDEOS - You can even make a donation via Flattr ! USAGE Usage: arteVIDEOS.py url|play|record [OPTIONS] URL arteVIDEOS.py search [OPTIONS] STRING... arteVIDEOS.py Play or record videos from arte VIDEOS website without a mandatory browser. In the first form, you need the url of the video page In the second form, just enter your search term In the last form (without any argument), you enter an interactive interpreter (type help to get a list of them, once in the interpreter) COMMANDS url show the url of the video play play the video directly (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET) record save the video into a local file search search for a video on arte+7 It will display a numbered list of results and enter a simple command line interpreter Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -d DLDIR, --downloaddir=DLDIR directory where to save the downloads -l LANG, --lang=LANG preferred language of the video fr, de, en (default: fr) -q QUALITY, --quality=QUALITY quality of the video sd or hd (default: hd) --verbose show output of rtmpdump If you run it without any argument, you enter a simple command line interpreter. Here is an example of a session. [...] is used to shorten the output: $ ./arteVIDEOS.py Type "help" to see available commands. arteVIDEOS> help COMMANDS: plus7 list videos from arte+7 allvideos list videos from allvideos tab events list videos from events tab programs list videos from programs tab search STRING search for a video next list videos of the next page previous list videos of previous page url NUMBER show url of video play NUMBERS play chosen videos record NUMBERS download and save videos to a local file info NUMBER display details about given video dldir [PATH] display or change download directory lang [fr|de|en] display or switch to a different language quality [sd|hd] display or switch to a different video quality help show this help quit quit the cli exit exit the cli arteVIDEOS> plus7 :: Retrieving plus7 videos list (1) Indonésie Sur l'île de Lembata les garçons doivent chasser la baleine pour passer à l'âge adulte. [...] (25) Boualem Sansal Portrait de l'écrivain algérien à la recherche de l'identité de son peuple. arteVIDEOS> next :: Retrieving plus7 videos list (26) Philosophie Le toucher nous met de plain-pied dans le réel. Raphaël Enthoven avec Clara Da Silva [...] (50) Au coeur des Alpes Histoire de la coexistence entre les hommes et les animaux dans le massif alpin. arteVIDEOS> info 40 :: Retrieving video data Le dessous des cartes explore la face cachée du commerce du bois. (France, 2010, 12mn) ARTE F Date de première diffusion: Sam., 16. oct. 2010, 17h48 Date(s) de rediffusion: Aujourd'hui à22h30 arteVIDEOS> play 40 :: Playing video(s): #40 :: Streaming from rtmp://artestras.fcod.llnwd.net/a3903/o35/MP4:geo/videothek/EUR_DE_FR/arteprod/A7_SGT_ENC_08_042143-035-A_PG_HQ_FR?h=641b72264e0820cdb6c02e1d7a907c7b arteVIDEOS> record 40 :: Recording video(s): #40 :: Downloading to le_dessous_des_cartes-3472068_hd_fr.flv arteVIDEOS> exit