Bug#690541: get-flash-videos: Fails to download youtube videos.

[Fabien Givors (Debian packages)]

Package: get-flash-videos
Version: 1.25~git2012.06.27-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

Downloading youtube videos with get-flash-videos seems to be broken.

Here is what happens (whichever video I try to download):

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$ get_flash_videos "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_tfF3EQVA"
Using method 'youtube' for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_tfF3EQVA
Downloading http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_tfF3EQVA
Downloading
http://o-o---preferred---sn-5hn7sner---v12---lscache4.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?upn=6p0d7DhZ68w&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&fexp=927104%2C922401%2C920704%2C912806%2C927201%2C913546%2C913556%2C925109%2C919003%2C920201%2C912706%2C900816%2C911112&expire=1350319049&algorithm=throttle-factor&burst=40&ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX&itag=35&sver=3&key=yt1&mt=1350297856&mv=m&source=youtube&ms=au&ipbits=8&factor=1.25&cp=U0hURVNMV19JU0NONF9LRkFBOk5TNk91UkZmZHA3&id=fddfed7c5dc44150...
Couldn't download
http://o-o---preferred---sn-5hn7sner---v12---lscache4.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?upn=6p0d7DhZ68w&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&fexp=927104%2C922401%2C920704%2C912806%2C927201%2C913546%2C913556%2C925109%2C919003%2C920201%2C912706%2C900816%2C911112&expire=1350319049&algorithm=throttle-factor&burst=40&ip=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX&itag=35&sver=3&key=yt1&mt=1350297856&mv=m&source=youtube&ms=au&ipbits=8&factor=1.25&cp=U0hURVNMV19JU0NONF9LRkFBOk5TNk91UkZmZHA3&id=fddfed7c5dc44150:
403 Forbidden
Couldn't download any videos.
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(where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is my IP)


Also, since there is no way we can assume youtube won't change its API
for two
years, I'm not sure this package should go to stable. Maybe it should go
into
some "versatile" branch or in the "backports" one?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages get-flash-videos depends on:
ii  libcrypt-blowfish-perl  2.12-1+b2
ii  libdata-amf-perl        0.09-3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl     3.69-2
ii  libhtml-tree-perl       5.02-1
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl      1.21-2
ii  liburi-perl             1.60-1
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl   1.71-1
ii  libwww-perl             6.04-1
ii  perl                    5.14.2-14
ii  rtmpdump                2.4+20111222.git4e06e21-1

Versions of packages get-flash-videos recommends:
ii  get-iplayer                 2.82-2
ii  libcrypt-rijndael-perl      1.11-1
ii  liblwp-protocol-socks-perl  1.6-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl          2.20-1

Versions of packages get-flash-videos suggests:
ii  mplayer             3:1.1-dmo7
ii  mplayer2 [mplayer]  1:2.0~git20120817-dmo1

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