clive is a command line video extraction utility for Youtube and other video-sharing websites. It was written to work around the Adobe Flash plugin requirement.

• Cross-platform: Unix-like systems (possibly others)
• Written in Perl
• Screenshot
• Front-end (GUI): abby
• Additional utilities: clive-utils
• For a similar but more compact utility, see cclive

Supported video websites:

• Youtube
• Google
• Sevenload
• Break
• Liveleak
• Evisor TV
• Dailymotion
• CCTV (not to be confused with "closed-circuit television")
• Redtube
• Vimeo

To get a more complete list of the supported websites, try running clive with the --hosts option.