agleyzer · October 9, 2012 16:04 · Oct 9, 2012
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Looking for MP4 videos in infoq content.
+#
+# <div style="width: 320px; height: 265px; float: left; margin-right: 10px;">
+#   <video poster="/styles/i/logo_scrubber.png" id="video" controls="controls" width="320" height="265">
+#     <source src="http://d1snlc0orfrhj.cloudfront.net/presentations/12-mar-lockfreealgorithms.mp4" />
+#   </video>
+# </div>
+
+import sys
+import urllib2
+
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+url = sys.argv[1]
+
+request = urllib2.Request(url)
+
+opener = urllib2.build_opener()
+
+request.add_header('User-Agent', "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10')")
+
+html = opener.open(request).read()
+
+soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
+
+video_url = soup.find('video', id='video').source['src']
+
+if (video_url):
+    print video_url
+    sys.exit(0)
+else:
+    sys.exit("failed to find video for " + url)