Extract video stream url only?

[simplyi]

Hello!

I have downloaded youtube-dl and run it in command line. It worked great! However I do not need entire video file to be downloaded on my computer. I need youtube-dl to return me the list of video urls from url_encoded_fmt_stream_map with a correct deciphered signature that I can use to download video from browser.

Is there a way to use youtube-dl to extract list of video urls? or may be you can share a piece of code I can use to decipher the signature? Currently I am using the two js functions from html5player and it works for many videos but not for velvo content. Can you advise me how to get through with it? I am using php though. Thank you!

[AGSPhoenix]

Have you tried using the -j and -g options?

[simplyi]

awesome! I have just tried this and it worked:
./youtube-dl --get-url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A"

@AGSPhoenix do you know if I can provide an additional option to request video url of specific quality? or by itag parameter in url_encoded_fmt_stream_map?

[xanadu]

--all-formats
-F
-f

[AGSPhoenix]

Yeah, seems to work with -f in conjunction with -g. --all-formats also works as you'd expect.

[simplyi]

@AGSPhoenix @xanadu guys thank you! you saved my day. It works!.