Readme and javascript generic search

readme.md

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+# youtube-dl
+
+Allows you to download and transcode video from supported sites. Needs ffmpeg for transcoding to work.
+
+## Supported sites
+  
+  * Youtube
+  * Metacafe
+  * Dailymotion
+  * Google
+  * Photobucket
+  * Yahoo
+  * DepositFiles
+  * Facebook
+  * Sites with JW Player
+## Installation
+
+    $ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg # for Ubuntu
+    $ sudo wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/dz0ny/youtube-dl/raw/master/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl && sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
+
+## Usage
+    $ youtube-dl [options] url...
+
+    Options:
+      -h, --help            print this help text and exit
+      -v, --version         print program version and exit
+      -U, --update          update this program to latest stable version
+      -i, --ignore-errors   continue on download errors
+      -r LIMIT, --rate-limit=LIMIT
+                            download rate limit (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
+      -R RETRIES, --retries=RETRIES
+                            number of retries (default is 10)
+      --playlist-start=NUMBER
+                            playlist video to start at (default is 1)
+      --playlist-end=NUMBER
+                            playlist video to end at (default is last)
+      --dump-user-agent     display the current browser identification
+
+      Authentication Options:
+        -u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME
+                            account username
+        -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD
+                            account password
+        -n, --netrc         use .netrc authentication data
+
+      Video Format Options:
+        -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
+                            video format code
+        --all-formats       download all available video formats
+        --max-quality=FORMAT
+                            highest quality format to download
+
+      Verbosity / Simulation Options:
+        -q, --quiet         activates quiet mode
+        -s, --simulate      do not download video
+        -g, --get-url       simulate, quiet but print URL
+        -e, --get-title     simulate, quiet but print title
+        --get-thumbnail     simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
+        --get-description   simulate, quiet but print video description
+        --get-filename      simulate, quiet but print output filename
+        --no-progress       do not print progress bar
+        --console-title     display progress in console titlebar
+
+      Filesystem Options:
+        -t, --title         use title in file name
+        -l, --literal       use literal title in file name
+        -A, --auto-number   number downloaded files starting from 00000
+        -o TEMPLATE, --output=TEMPLATE
+                            output filename template
+        -a FILE, --batch-file=FILE
+                            file containing URLs to download ('-' for stdin)
+        -w, --no-overwrites
+                            do not overwrite files
+        -c, --continue      resume partially downloaded files
+        --cookies=FILE      file to dump cookie jar to
+        --no-part           do not use .part files
+        --no-mtime          do not use the Last-modified header to set the file
+                            modification time
+
+      Transcoding Options (uses ffmpeg):
+        -T FILE_TYPE, --transcode_to=FILE_TYPE
+                            transcode to specific video or audio format (example:
+                            mp3 mp4 mov mkv)
+        --transcode_extra=ARGS
+                            pass additional parameters to ffmpeg (example: -vcodec
+                            libx264 -vpre slow -vpre ipod640 -b 2048k -acodec
+                            libfaac -ab 96k)
+
+# License 
+  
+  Public domain code
+
+# Authors
+  
+  * Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez
+  * Danny Colligan
+  * Benjamin Johnson
+  * Vasyl' Vavrychuk
+  * Witold Baryluk
+  * Paweł Paprota
+  * Gergely Imreh
+  * Janez Troha

youtube-dl

@@ -1767,7 +1767,10 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
 		mobj = re.search(r'flashvars: [\'"](?:.*&)?file=(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
 		if mobj is None:
 			# Broaden the search a little bit
-			mobj = re.search(r'[^A-Za-z0-9]?(?:file|source)=(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
+			mobj = re.search(r'[^A-Za-z0-9]?(?:file|source|video_url)=(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
+		if mobj is None:
+			# Search in javascript
+			mobj = re.search(r'video_url.+(http[^\'"&]*)', webpage)
 		if mobj is None:
 			self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: Invalid URL: %s' % url)
 			return
@@ -2930,7 +2933,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 				fd.add_post_processor(transcoder)
 			except PostProcessingError, err:
 				sys.exit(err)
-				
+
 		# Update version
 		if opts.update_self:
 			update_self(fd, sys.argv[0])