Caching entire youtube

Net_Spy · 02-21-2008, 11:39 PM

Greetings to all,

Guys I wonder how to caching entire site like youtube or any other.Does any body have any idea regarding this? looking forward for your kind response.

Regards
Net_spy

shankermcsa · 02-22-2008, 12:13 AM

HI

As per my knowledge, you can download the website using wget -rc command.
But youtube site takes videos from its SAN device so you can not download the videos.
Instead you can download the files with youtube downloader

rupertwh · 02-22-2008, 12:16 AM

What do you mean by "caching entire site"? I haven't seen any recent youtube stats, but by now you'd probably be talking about several hundred TB! (Legal issues aside) Do you have that much storage/download capacity?

If you actually want a cache (without the "entire site"), try squid. (Don't know, though, how that works with streaming videos)

If you want to download a complete site (maybe something smaller than youtube), wget should do the trick.

acid_kewpie · 02-22-2008, 03:49 AM

yeah i wouldn't suggest trying to mirror youtube, you wouldn't have 0.001% of the required storage for a full mirror. Additionally you can't just make a copy of a site which isn't static. there's very little static content on youtube, just the logo's and such, all the rest is dynamic.