GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 343412
RFE: VideoDownload like plugin for epiphany
Last modified: 2013-05-27 16:12:11 UTC
Firefox has a really neat plugin called VideoDownload which can be seen here https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/ This plugin allows users to downloaded embedded movies from websites. Websites such as Google video, youtube, etc. For users who refuse to use non-free flash this would be extremely helpful. In the past if the user was lucky they could search through the page source code and hope they find the video they are looking for. A tool like this would reduce the complication and give the user what she wants.
Maybe it could be inspired on: http://blauebirke.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/epiphany-video-download-extension/
Created attachment 126053 [details] [review] video downloader -- a python extension Note that it has an external dependently on clive[1]. More information[2] and bzr-branch[3] are available, too. Looking forward to your comments. Sorry, that I didn't test if Makefile.am actually works. Thanks to Reinout for suggesting I add a patch here. [1] http://clive.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://blauebirke.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/epiphany-video-download-extension/ [3] http://wwwpub.zih.tu-dresden.de/~s5827060/epiphany-video/
You can actually use totem-pl-parser to check whether the website is supported[1], and parse it using the TotemPlParser object as well. [1]: Shortly at http://developer.gnome.org/totem-pl-parser/3.4/TotemPlParser.html look for totem_pl_parser_can_parse_from_uri()
According to its developer, epiphany-extensions is not under active development anymore. (For reference: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2013-May/msg00035.html and bug 700924.) It is unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping - Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.