How to get mp4/mov/m4v video link for a youtube video?

Question

Can we get the file url for any video loaded on youtube? I am not happy using the youtube player in my application and would like to launch it using a instance of MPMoviePlayerController.

PS: Will be tagging it php also as developers across domains would also have had this sort of requirement

Solution 1

Do you mean something like this ?

You could get the url of the video and implement it in another video controller.

http://www.ngcoders.com/php/php-youtube-video-downloader-script

You could use Curl to stream it back to your users.

Solution 2

I do this within my iOS app by using https://github.com/larcus94/LBYouTubeView

There is an LBYouTubeExtractor class that makes it easy to grab the iOS friendly file for any youtube link you pass to it.

LBYouTubeExtractor* extractor = [[LBYouTubeExtractor alloc] initWithURL:URL quality:quality];
extractor.delegate = self;
[extractor startExtracting];

Works quite well....Good luck.