A tool that utilizes archive.org to download old videos from google video.
NT_x86 for some of the functions, and for his method of downloading videos.
archive.org for their amazing service for digital preservation
an old version of youtube-dl for some regex patterns
You will need: The latest version of Python (get it here) The requests module (install with pip) The bs4 module (install with pip)
if you have python and pip installed you can run the included setup.bat file.
Notice: NOT ALL VIDEOS WILL WORK!
py .\GVD.py
You can download a single video by entering its docid, or multiple videos at once by entering a filename.
Single video:
Enter docid (or filename that has docids): YOURVIDEODOCID
Multiple videos:
Enter docid (or filename that has docids): Videos.txt
When downloading multiple videos you will be asked for the number of threads, just press enter for the default (5) or enter a higher number, though be warned, archive.org may rate limit or temporarily suspend access to their services if the number is too high.