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Made some good progress on the backlog today. Fixed some bugs, applied some
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patches. Noticing that without me around, things still get followed up
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on, to a point, for example incomplete test cases for bugs get corrected so
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they work. This is a very good thing. Community!
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I had to stop going through the backlog when I got to one message from
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Anarcat mentioning [quvi](http://quvi.sourceforge.net/). That turns
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out to be just what is needed to implement the often-requested feature
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of `git-annex addurl` supporting YouTube and other similar sites. So I
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spent the rest of the day making that work. For example:
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<pre>
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% git annex addurl --fast 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mxPFHBCfuU&list=PL4F80C7D2DC8D9B6C&index=1'
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addurl Star_Wars_X_Wing__Seth_Green__Clare_Grant__and_Mike_Lamond_Join_Wil_on_TableTop_SE2E09.webm ok
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</pre>
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Yes, that got the video title and used it as the filename, and yes,
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I can commit this file and run `git annex get` later, and it will be
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able to go download the video! I can even use `git annex fsck --fast`
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to make sure YouTube still has my videos. Awesome.
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The great thing about quvi is it takes the url to a video webpage, and
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returns an url that can be used to download the actual video file. So it
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simplifies ugly flash videos as far out of existence as is possible.
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However, since the direct url to the video file may not keep working for long.
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addurl actually records the page's url, with an added indication that quvi
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should be used to get it.
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