add support for Google+ (plus.google.com)

[ghost]

Google+ becomes more and more popular. Please support this host also. Thanks

youtube-dl -t https://plus.google.com/111962077049890418486/posts/EJxn8T21H5o
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] EJxn8T21H5o: Downloading webpage
[generic] EJxn8T21H5o: Extracting information
ERROR: Invalid URL: https://plus.google.com/111962077049890418486/posts/EJxn8T21H5o

[ghost]

any progress?

[kevinamadeus]

I personally use Google+ a lot, and I have written php script myself to extract the video link, and download using wget. I think this may be ported to Python...

/*
 * The post. By clicking the date of a post in a stream
 * Post has to be public
 * for example, $post_url = "https://plus.google.com/100853242536124656213/posts/EDSBssT7zLm"
 */
$post_html = file_get_contents($post_url);

    /* Time, for output file name */
    $time_pattern = '%title\="Timestamp"\>(.*?)\</a\>%';
    if (preg_match($time_pattern, $post_html, $matches)) {
        $time = date('ymd', strtotime($matches[1]));
    } else {
        $time = date('ymd') . 'F';
    }

    /* Description, for output file name */
    $desc_pattern = '%<meta name\="Description" content\="(.*?)[\s<"]%';
    if (preg_match($desc_pattern, $post_html, $matches)) {
        $desc = $matches[1];
    } else {
        $desc = 'No desc';
    }

    /* Author, for output file name */
    $author_pattern = '%rel\="author".*?>(.*?)</a>%';
    if (preg_match($author_pattern, $post_html, $matches)) {
        $author = $matches[1];
    } else {
        $author = 'No author';
    }
/*
 * Simulate clicking the image of a video post
 */
$image_box_pattern = '%"(https\://plus\.google\.com/photos/.*?)",,"image/jpeg","video"\]%';
if (preg_match($image_box_pattern, $post_html, $matches)) {
    $image_box_url = $matches[1];
    $image_box_html = file_get_contents($image_box_url);
} else {
    die('Cannot find the image box');
}

/*
 * Extract video links of all sizes
 */
if (preg_match_all('%\d+,\d+,(\d+),"(http\://redirector\.googlevideo\.com.*?)"%',$image_box_html,$matches)) {
    /* Prepare function to decode \u0026 like hex */
    function unescapeUTF8EscapeSeq($str) {
        return preg_replace_callback("/\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i",
            create_function('$matches',
                'return html_entity_decode(\'&#x\'.$matches[1].\';\', ENT_QUOTES, \'UTF-8\');'
            ), $str);
    }

    /* Put them into an array */
    $video_links = array();
    for ($i=0; $i<count($matches[1]); $i++) {
        $video_links[$matches[1][$i]] = unescapeUTF8EscapeSeq($matches[2][$i]);
    }

    /* Sort the best quality first*/
    krsort($video_links);
    foreach ($video_links as $video_link) {
        $video_to_download = $video_link;
        break; /* Only taking the first one */
    }
} else {
    die('No video found');
}

/*
 * Formulate command
 */
echo PHP_EOL . "screen wget -O \"Downloads/$time - $author - $desc.flv\" \"$video_link\"" . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;

[FiloSottile]

We have it!