Is there any way to download FLV video from a website specifically IMDB trailers

[erogol]

I need to download movie trailers for my research but there is no legible place to get some so I decide to download from the site itself. Is there any programic way to do that preferably in Python. I know some of unofficial APIs but they also give only meta data about the movies. If someone know how to do that, help that naive researcher.

[vezzy]

Much better to simply write a user script for Greasemonkey. In fact, there should already be an existing one for your purposes (though I haven't checked).

[ftb]

I don't know if you are looking for some code to implement in you're own python program that allows you to do it, or are you just looking for software that you can use to download the FLV? If the case is the former- I can't help you, but if it is the later- I know you can use wireshark to do this.

Video bellow explains how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1DRnu5Cx

[Kulverstukas]

You don't need python or wireshark. Firefox with some plugin help can do that for you.
One is TamperData which I recommend to try first. Then there is LiveHTTPHeaders, and then there are a multitude of other video or web object downloaders available, just search around the mozilla plugin DB.

[kenjoe41]

Sometimes we think too much even for simpler problems. I only use wireshark to get the link and use a download manager i trust like wget. But when am using Windows, internet download manager has auto detection for that stuff even when am using youtube.

[erogol]

Thanks for the answers folks!!! But the fact is, I need that download in my Python program.Therefore I need a script or a source code that is able to download that video. Or the tool should be able to take a list of video names and download the matching videos from IMDB.

[kenjoe41]

i see stackoverflow didn.t answer your question, yes you leave alot of signature. This isn't a solution (am still working on that) but a way out. I suggest you look at tarantula:This gets all the movie meta data from IMDB then corelates it with that on http://rottentomatoes.com, if by chance the movies is there on rottentomatoes, it download the trailer from there (rottentomatoes.com). I know this isn't what you are looking for.

   Else, you could set out to write your own parser but you are gonna have to pour through Downthemall code to see how they always manage to find video URIs.

@IFailStuff, he needs some code to put in his python script to download FLV files from IMDB. He insists he won't use any other software. Maybe just a learning process. If it was Youtube then Pafy would have done the Job.

[xC]

Do they have the trailers on YouTube? They usually have pretty good quality videos on there. A Python script would be more productive for mass-downloads but for single downloads you could get a browser plugin or other third-party services to achieve this.

[erogol]

currently I am m using a python code to find the movies from imdb from genres and search them on youtube and download the first mvoie from the search. But some videos are so unrealted and poor in quality. It requires some hand effort to delete all those noise.

[kenjoe41]

For the youtube videos, take a look at Pafy and am sure you will ba able to download movies by quality, genre, format or whatever you choose that has a place in their database.

[puddi]

view source -> ctrl f -> .flv - bro. 

[WirelessDesert]

Just want to add that the stream function in vlc could also be used.