Google Video (Archive)

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Google Video
Video logo lg.gif
URL http://video.google.com
Status Closing in 2011-04-29[1]
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Google Video is a video sharing website which is shutting down.

If you want to save your own videos, see the announcement and tools below.

If you want to help archive Google Video, get some Linux machines running and join us in IRC (EFNet #archiveteam / #googlegrape)

Joining the archival effort

The automatic scripts only work on Linux and maybe OS X. They also seem to work fine in Cygwin. Alternatively, you can run *nix in a virtual machine (given you have a fast enough machine).

  • Download youtube-dl or from your distribution.
  • Download googlegargle
  • Get aria2 (from your distribution or SourceForge)
  • Pick a seed list from below, save it under the filename "list" and add your name to the list (you will need a wiki account)
  • Change the first few lines of the googlegargle script to reflect your installation
    • If you're using youtube-dl from your distro, run "sudo updatedb; locate youtube-dl" to find the location of the command. Change DLSCRIPT to this.
  • For older aria versions, some options need to be removed (--max-connection-per-server=16 --min-split-size=1M)
    • You might need to upgrade your version from your system package manager, however the most recent version still may not suffice.
  • Invoke googlegargle

Join the IRC channel to coordinate!


Cherry picking

The seed files do currently not include all videos, so you might want to save precious videos explicitely. To do that, add IDs (docid URL parameter of the Google Video) to the "list" file in the same directory as the script, for example:

docid=1545969803753962248
docid=1598207563000425446
docid=-1679753730105404298

and start ./googlegargle

To request a cherrypick, add it to this list: http://piratepad.net/gvspecificrequests If you download something from that list, add its docid to http://piratepad.net/TL7KDN8821 so that others won't download those videos for the second time.

Seed List Downloads

http://199.48.254.90/at/seeds/

  • seed_videos_2_a
  • seed_videos_2_k
  • seed_videos_2_l
  • seed_videos_2_m
  • seed_videos_2_o
  • seed_videos_2_p
  • seed_videos_2_q
  • seed_videos_2_t
  • seed_videos_2_u
  • seed_videos_2_w
  • seed_videos_2_x
  • seed_videos_2_y
  • seed_videos_2_z
  • seed_videos_a dr_sweety
  • seed_videos_a_related dr_sweety
  • seed_videos_b bjwebb
  • seed_videos_c
  • seed_videos_d nomduclav
  • seed_videos_e nomduclav
  • seed_videos_f doublej
  • seed_videos_g
  • seed_videos_h ARc[Clone
  • seed_videos_i DeCarabas
  • seed_videos_j joethehum
  • seed_videos_k aggroskater
  • seed_videos_l yipdw
  • seed_videos_m TJ__
  • seed_videos_n ndurner
  • seed_videos_o
  • seed_videos_p Pneu
  • seed_videos_q nomduclavier
  • seed_videos_r Pentium
  • seed_videos_s Pentium
  • seed_videos_t joethehum
  • seed_videos_u greg-g
  • seed_videos_v masterme1
  • seed_videos_w com_lab
  • seed_videos_x Dark-Star
  • seed_videos_y beremat
  • seed_videos_z ksh

Tools

Youtube-DL

DocID scripts

GoogleGargle

Aria2c

FAQ

  • is there any estimate on how many videos are on google video?

wikipedia said it has 2,500,000 videos, a semi-official google blog mentioned 2.8M

  • is there anything about grabbing metadata for vids? like descriptions?

googlegrape does that, it saves the html of the video download page

  • what happens to the data after you claim a seed on the wiki and download it?

We've got 100TB of space allocated to us on archive.org, and can get more

  • is there already some space where it can be uploaded to?

not yet

Announcement: Uploaded video content no longer available

On April 29, 2011 videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We’ve added a Download button to the Video Status page, so you can download videos that you want to save. If you don’t want to download your videos, you don’t need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)

How do I download videos that I've uploaded?

On the Video Status page, click Download Video located on the right side of each of your videos in the "Actions" column.Once a video has been downloaded, an "Already Downloaded" message will appear. If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all. This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.

I've downloaded my videos. Now what do I do with these FLV files?

FLV files are videos that have been encoded in the Flash Video Format. You can upload your videos in FLV format to other video hosting sites like YouTube or Picassa Web Albums. If you would like to playback your videos on your computer and they don’t seem to be working, you might need to install an FLV player. In order to find an FLV player to install, try doing a Google search for [ FLV player ].

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