YouTube - internetarchive/heritrix3 GitHub Wiki
To capture YouTube videos add the scope rules:
+http://(com,youtube,c,
+http://(com,youtube-nocookie,c,
+http://(com,ytimg,
+http://(be,youtu,
+http://(com,youtube,www,)/crossdomain.xml
and include the following in order.xml.
At the end of the extractors section:
<newObject name="ExtractorImpliedURI-YoutubeEmbedded" class="org.archive.crawler.extractor.ExtractorImpliedURI">
<boolean name="enabled">true</boolean>
<newObject name="ExtractorImpliedURI-YoutubeEmbedded#decide-rules" class="org.archive.crawler.deciderules.DecideRuleSequence">
<map name="rules">
</map>
</newObject>
<string name="trigger-regexp">^(http://(?:www.)?youtube.com)/v/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+).*$</string>
<string name="build-pattern">$1/watch?v=$2</string>
<boolean name="remove-trigger-uris">false</boolean>
</newObject>
<newObject name="ExtractorImpliedURI-YoutubeWatchPage" class="org.archive.crawler.extractor.ExtractorImpliedURI">
<boolean name="enabled">false</boolean>
<newObject name="ExtractorImpliedURI-YoutubeWatchPage#decide-rules" class="org.archive.crawler.deciderules.DecideRuleSequence">
<map name="rules">
</map>
</newObject>
<string name="trigger-regexp"/>
<string name="build-pattern"/>
<boolean name="remove-trigger-uris">false</boolean>
</newObject>In settings/com/youtube/settings.xml:
<object name="ExtractorImpliedURI-YoutubeWatchPage">
<boolean name="enabled">true</boolean>
<string name="trigger-regexp">^(http://[^/]*\.c\.youtube.com)/[^?]+\?(.*)$</string>
<string name="build-pattern">$1/videoplayback?$2</string>
</object>In settings/com/youtube/c/settings.xml:
<object name="robots-honoring-policy">
<string name="type">ignore</string>
</object>If you have questions regarding anything you see documented here, please don't hesitate to contact the list at archive-crawler at yahoogroups dot com.