Add official support for gfycat

[woodenphone]

While gfycat.com works at the moment, it is not listed in the supported sites.
Can it be officially maintained as a supported site, with detection of the highest quality version if that is possible?
Example video link:
http://gfycat.com/VainRichCub

[mandb]

does anybody have documentation on how to build an extractor? Can possibly do a PR.

[mandb]

added, PR #5439

You can pull mp4, webm or gif format (default is mp4 if gif not specified in url or with -f), extra details (duration, size, views, etc) added.

http://gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard
[Gfycat] RequiredUnkemptBuzzard: Downloading webpage

{
    "duration": 6,
    "formats": [
        {
            "acodec": "none",
            "bytesize": "749951",
            "ext": "webm",
            "format_id": "webm",
            "fps": 29,
            "height": 338,
            "http_headers": {
                "User-Agent": "youtube-dl (like wget)"
            },
            "id": "RequiredUnkemptBuzzard",
            "preference": 0,
            "url": "http://zippy.gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard.webm",
            "vbr": 122.06233723958333,
            "width": 600
        },
        {
            "acodec": "none",
            "bytesize": "5935649",
            "ext": "gif",
            "format_id": "gif",
            "fps": 29,
            "height": 338,
            "http_headers": {
                "User-Agent": "youtube-dl (like wget)"
            },
            "id": "RequiredUnkemptBuzzard",
            "preference": 1,
            "url": "http://giant.gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard.gif",
            "vbr": 966.0887044270834,
            "width": 600
        },
        {
            "acodec": "none",
            "bytesize": "1740123",
            "ext": "mp4",
            "format_id": "mp4",
            "fps": 29,
            "height": 338,
            "http_headers": {
                "User-Agent": "youtube-dl (like wget)"
            },
            "id": "RequiredUnkemptBuzzard",
            "preference": 2,
            "url": "http://fat.gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard.mp4",
            "vbr": 283.22314453125,
            "width": 600
        }
    ],
    "id": "RequiredUnkemptBuzzard",
    "title": "Headshot!",
    "view_count": 448486
}

[julianrichen]

I was working on this as well, guess you beat me to it! Regarding your pull it might be better to use the built in json api they have as it will cut down on the code.:

http://gfycat.com/cajax/get/<video_id>

The url http://gfycat.com/cajax/get/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard returns:

{
  "gfyItem": {
    "gfyId": "requiredunkemptbuzzard",
    "gfyName": "RequiredUnkemptBuzzard",
    "gfyNumber": "607648367",
    "userName": "anonymous",
    "width": 600,
    "height": 338,
    "frameRate": 29,
    "numFrames": 180,
    "mp4Url": "http://fat.gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard.mp4",
    "webmUrl": "http://zippy.gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard.webm",
    "gifUrl": "http://giant.gfycat.com/RequiredUnkemptBuzzard.gif",
    "gifSize": 5935649,
    "mp4Size": 1740123,
    "webmSize": 749951,
    "createDate": "1422584031",
    "views": 492324,
    "title": "Headshot!",
    "extraLemmas": null,
    "md5": "5dd3ed3ff36e37839cb11fb2faeff3a5",
    "tags": null,
    "nsfw": "0",
    "likes": "6",
    "dislikes": 0,
    "published": 1,
    "description": null,
    "copyrightClaimaint": null,
    "sar": "1",
    "url": "https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1422071452954.webm",
    "source": "1",
    "dynamo": null,
    "subreddit": "all",
    "redditId": "32ol2t",
    "redditIdText": "a_skillful_headshot",
    "uploadGifName": null
  }
}

Might still make a pr if the api json version is prefered, not finished coding it.

[mandb]

if there's json readily available probably best to use that, you can recycle the url match regex and extension preference.

[dstftw]

Gfycat will be supported in the next version. Thanks for the report.

[dstftw]

Support for gfycat has been added in youtube-dl 2015.04.26. See our FAQ if you have problems updating.