[vox-tech] download manager c++ code

[Scott Miller]

Can't help with the c++, but there are sites that do this as well like:

http://keepvid.com/

Scott

On Jun 22, 2009, at 20:30, Ken Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:12 -0400, Hai Yi wrote:
>> Hello there:
>>
>> I am looking for some c++ component or snippet, which is basically a
>> download manager. For example, when a url link of youtube is feeded,
>> the corresponding video file will be downloaded.
>>
>> I did some google but unfortuately couldn't find any viable ones.
>>
>> Anyone out there are able to help me on it?
>
> Unfortunately, your example (of a YouTube download) is not the same as
> the general case of a direct link, because downloading a YouTube video
> isn't a direct link.
>
> If you're looking for software for downloading a YouTube video, look  
> at
> youtube-dl or clive, both of which are command-line programs for
> downloading YouTube videos, given the YouTube page URL. (This is good,
> for example, when you don't have a flash browser plugin installed --  
> the
> resulting video can be played as an mp4 using mplayer).
>
> As for general download mangers here are the choices I see in apt-get:
>
> d4x - graphical download manager
> gwget - GNOME front-end for wget
> kget - download manager for KDE 4
> multiget - graphical download manager
> wmget - Background download manager in a Window Maker dock app
>
> kget, in particular has a shared library that must expose an API for
> interacting with kget.
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