quvi(1)

NAME

quvi - query video tool

quvi [options] [url...]

quvi is a command line tool for parsing video download links. It
supports Youtube and other similar video websites.

-h, --help: Print help and exit.
-v, --version: Print program version and exit.
--hosts: Print supported hosts and exit.
-q, --quiet: Turn off all output.
--debug: Turn on libcurl verbose mode.
-n, --no-verify: Do not verify video link. Note that quvi will not report video file length, content-type or file suffix if this option is used.
--page-title=string: Match parsed video page title to string.
--video-id=string: Match parsed video ID to string.
--file-length=length: Match parsed video file length to length.
--file-suffix=string: Match parsed video file suffix to string.
-a, --test-all: Run all built-in tests. quvi will test all built-in video page
links.
-t, --test=pattern: Match pattern to a built-in test page link and test it.
-d, --dump: Dump video details when running tests. To be used with --test-all.
--agent=string: Identify quvi as string to servers. Default is "Mozilla/5.0".
--proxy=host[:port]: Use the specified HTTP proxy. Note that quvi will use http_proxy
environment setting if it is set.
--connect-timeout=seconds: Maximum seconds allowed connection to server take. Default is 30.
-f, --format[=]format_id: Query video format, format_id depends on the host, see --hosts output.

quvi URL: Test URL.
quvi -a: Run all built-in host tests.
quvi -t youtube: Match 'youtube' string to built-in video page links and test it.
quvi URL -f best: Query 'best' of the video from the URL.

quvi --debug URL: Spew out libcurl verbose mode messages.
$prefix/share/quvi/lua/README $prefix/share/quvi/lua/website/README: Contain details about working with the quvi Lua scripts (e.g.
website rules). If video link parsing breaks, have a look at these files.
$prefix/share/doc/quvi: Various HOWTOs can be found in this directory.

$HOME/.quvirc: You can define most of the command line options in the config file. For example:

agent = some_agent/1.0 # --agent
proxy = http://foo:1234 # --proxy
no-verify # --no-verify
debug # --debug; Note that you can also define QUVI_HOME and use it instead.

quvi exits with 0 on success and >0 if an error occurred.: QUVI_OK = 0x00
QUVI_MEM = 0x01, Memory allocation failed
QUVI_BADHANDLE = 0x02, Bad session handle
QUVI_INVARG = 0x03, Invalid function argument
QUVI_CURLINIT = 0x04, libcurl initialization failed
QUVI_LAST = 0x05, Indicates end of list iteration
QUVI_ABORTEDBYCALLBACK= 0x06, Aborted by callback function
QUVI_LUAINIT = 0x07, Lua initialization failure
QUVI_NOLUAWEBSITE = 0x08, Failed to find lua website scripts
-QUVI_PCRE = 0x40, libpcre error occurred
QUVI_NOSUPPORT = 0x41, libquvi does not support the video host QUVI_CURL = 0x42, libcurl error occurred
QUVI_ICONV = 0x43, libiconv error occurred
QUVI_LUA = 0x44, lua error occurred

Toni Gundogdu.