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).

First of all, please add your name/nickname to this list, along with the storage and bandwidth you have available.

  • 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.
    • To know where aria2 is located: "sudo updatedb; locate aria2", usually (ubuntu) at /usr/bin/aria2, change ARIA variable to this.
  • 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

Seed list Videos (lines) Downloader Complete? (Size?)
seed_videos_2_a 25,761
seed_videos_2_k 24,242
seed_videos_2_l 22,641
seed_videos_2_m 24,465
seed_videos_2_o 25,049
seed_videos_2_p 23,713
seed_videos_2_q 17,727
seed_videos_2_t 25,301
seed_videos_2_u 23,528
seed_videos_2_w 21,732
seed_videos_2_x 19,733
seed_videos_2_y 20,965
seed_videos_2_z 18,877 flare
seed_videos_a 1000 dr_sweety
seed_videos_a_related This list contain errors dr_sweety
seed_videos_b 999 bjwebb
seed_videos_c 981 dnova
seed_videos_d 999 nomduclav
seed_videos_e 999 nomduclav
seed_videos_f 999 doublej
seed_videos_g 999
seed_videos_h 999 ARc[Clone
seed_videos_i 999 DeCarabas
seed_videos_j 999 joethehum
seed_videos_k 999 aggroskater
seed_videos_l 999 yipdw
seed_videos_m 999 TJ__
seed_videos_n 999 ndurner
seed_videos_o 999 com_lab
seed_videos_p 999 Pneu
seed_videos_q 996 nomduclavier
seed_videos_r 996 Pentium
seed_videos_s 999 Pentium
seed_videos_t 999 joethehum
seed_videos_u 999 greg-g
seed_videos_v 999 masterme1
seed_videos_w 1000 com_lab
seed_videos_x 1000 Dark-Star
seed_videos_y 1000 beremat
seed_videos_z 1000 ksh
Total 323,996 Archive Team In progress...

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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