clive is a command line utility for extracting videos from Youtube and other video sharing Web sites. It was originally written to bypass the Adobe Flash requirement needed to view the hosted videos.
| Tags | multimedia Video |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Unix |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases


Release Notes: Support for reading input from files was added.


Release Notes: Support for youtu.be URLs was added.


Release Notes: A YouTube 404 issue was fixed. LiveLeak ID parsing was fixed.


Release Notes: Additional configuration paths were added. The --format option was extended.


Release Notes: The WWW::Quvi dependency was removed and replaced with the --quvi option. --get-with was added to replace the built-in download feature and to allow users to specify an external download command. The --config-file option was added. Support for system wide configuration was added. Use of the "version" module was fixed. The JSON::XS dependency was added. WWW::Curl and Term::ReadKey dependencies were removed. Several obsoleted options were removed.