Relink Dowloaded Page to Local Video

[sirinath]

If the save download option is selected the ability to link the downloaded pages to the local video will be great.

Update: Delete following. Opened a new issue. (#1857)

BTW, following 2 links fail.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0B0820169DCF0AD2
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF6CAC63C615DB881

[phihag]

Please feel free to open multiple issues here for different issues. Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to track the progress. For what it's worth, I can download both playlists just fine. If the problem persists, please open a new issue and post the full output of youtube-dl when given the -v option.

As to the main request. I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by link, or even the save download option. Can you elaborate?

[sirinath]

What I mean is when you download using: --write-pages have the ability to re create a browsable local copy of the site where the embedded videos pointing to locally saved videos.

[sirinath]

Basically a locally mirrored portion of the site which you can open in the browser and watch the videos. Perhaps you can use something like Scrapy (scrapy.org) to mirror the html part. HTML will need processing so the links and JS links are valid. Also any embedded video player links.

[phihag]

--write-pages is intended for debugging only. In any case, the original site will probably provide a bad experience with the video. For example, many websites use Flash/RTMP to display or request the video, and one of the reasons to use youtube-dl can be precisely because there are no open-source or, for some platforms, even no closed-source implementations of these techniques.

I can see the use for writing a HTML index, but that would probably be a new option. Mirroring the original website is almost certainly out of scope for youtube-dl and better solved with a separate application, since the mirroring and necessary modification is probably at least as complicated - if not more complicated - than the actual video download.

[sirinath]

May be a HTML index with thumbnails will do.