Apple Trailers Fix

Posted by Gen2ly on 2009-08-30 in Linux, Multimedia, Script

Header As some of you may have found out or read about, Apple trailer downloads for Linux are currently broken. Apple has implemented a Quicktime user agent check prior to downloading. Personally I agree with the decision because Apple is concerned about the quality of reproduction (though Apple trailers still play with an odd hue on Windows – think this has to do with Quicktime not correctly reading Window’s color setting – but I’m getting off topic). This means that movie players plugins for web browsers (like gecko-mediaplayer and totem) will no longer work. Until gstreamer gets a patch that fix’s this, here’s a script that can download them manually. To use the script, right-click on the download link and copy it to the clipboard then append it after the atget script.

You can comment wget line and uncomment the mplayer line to directly play the trailer. The mplayer line needs to have a cache to be sure the video is downloaded before it start or errors will occur (200MB should be enough for just about and video on the site).

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Thanks to Ian on stack overflow, who help me figure out how to prepend a regex search.

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26 comments on “Apple Trailers Fix”

Sohail Mirza 2009-08-30 at 8:37 pm Reply

Great script. Many thanks. :)

Would it be possible to modify the script to allow downloading of multiple trailers in queued fashion?
Gen2ly 2009-08-31 at 11:33 am Reply

> Great script. Many thanks. :)

No problem. Glad you could make use of it.

> Would it be possible to modify the script to allow downloading of multiple trailers in queued fashion?

Yeah, that’s definitely possible. I’ll see if I can get to in in the next couple days.
Sohail Mirza 2009-08-31 at 11:53 am Reply

Btw, check out the update to the post you’ve linked to (http://mirzmaster.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/apple-movie-trailer-downloads-are-broken/). HD-trailers.net claim that simply changing the URL from movies.apple.com to http://www.apple.com should permit direct download (without a User Agent switch)
Gen2ly 2009-08-31 at 3:28 pm Reply

Good tip. Wonder though if Apple will make that link eventually require a user agent too.
Jacob Thehero 2009-09-06 at 6:44 am Reply

Thanks for the post. I updated my wget with “-U” flag and the user agent code used with mplayer in your code so I can download trailers again.
Alexander Kojevnikiov 2009-09-06 at 7:44 pm Reply
That was helpful, thanks!

By the way, what do you use to insert the code snippets? Just manually wrap them in
```
 and  with a custom CSS style?
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Alexander Kojevnikiov 2009-09-06 at 7:46 pm Reply

Right, the comments DO allow html tags. Here’s what I wanted to post:

Just manually wrap them in <pre> and &ltdiv> with a custom CSS style?
Gen2ly 2009-09-07 at 2:00 am Reply

Thank you.

For the css I use a html/css editor call Arachnophilia and create my own custom tags. It was a pain to sort out because they can sometimes conflict with the built in ones but if you find the right scheme they can work nicely. Here’s my bash script one in case you can use it:

<pre><div style="overflow: auto; width=auto; border: solid #c8c8c8; border-width: .1em .1em .1em .8em; padding: .2em .6em .2em .6em; background-color: #dddddf; font-size: 1em;white-space:pre;">|</div></pre>

Thanks for droppin’ in.
Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-09-07 at 4:27 am Reply

Thanks mate, works great!
Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-09-13 at 1:00 am Reply

@Gen2ly: I wrote a small app to automate the snippets highlighting, feel free to use it.
Gen2ly 2009-09-13 at 10:32 am Reply

Hey cool! Nice. Just had a few things come up though that you should probably know about. I discovered that using div tags for code causes the browser to use western-encoding which I think uses microsoft font (i.e. not UTF-8) encoding. Therefore in the process converts a few characters over to microsoft font value. I particularly had problems with quotes. I’ve since written a new css box with a formatted pre tag that gets the expected behavior:

<pre style="overflow: auto; width=auto; border: solid #c8c8c8; border-width: .1em .1em .1em .8em; padding: .2em .6em .2em .6em; background-color: #dddddf; font-size: .9em;white-space:pre;"></pre>

Try it out if you like and tell me what you think.
Alexander Kojevnikov 2009-09-13 at 6:14 pm Reply
The method I’m using at hilite.me seems to work fine with Unicode characters and quotes:
```
print '"""тестÆÇçæǡ"""'
```
I’m actually using a pre <tag> wrapped in <div>, not the other way around. It’s the default method of Pygments – the highlighting library I use. I think it’s functionally equivalent to what you are doing with a single <pre> tag.
Gen2ly 2009-09-13 at 8:06 pm Reply

Yeah, I didn’t have problems with it until recently. The problems I have encountered to could be from a number of problems but I have had a couple people tell me that they had problems with the code boxes. I tested this method out on those trouble scripts. I’m not sure it’s quotes, could be with non-breaking spaces… So if it works for you…
Sohail Mirza 2009-10-12 at 6:31 pm Reply

Hey, Gen2ly, your readers may find that in the last few days Apple again broke trailer downloads. I’ve written up a tutorial on using Firefox, Greasemonkey, and a user agent hack to get it working again:

http://mirzmaster.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/helpful-hints-apple-movie-trailers-download-using-firefox-greasemonkey-and-user-agent-hack/

Thanks!

Gen2ly 2009-10-12 at 8:39 pm Reply

I’d thought I’d post this because it’s pretty dang cool. Got this from lollicon on the forums and it reads the Apple trailer webpage and gets the current trailers lists for the opening weekend, then prompts which one to download:

#!/bin/bash

###:: Apple Trailer Checker and Downloader. (www.apple.com/trailers/)

Q='720p' # 480p, 720p, 1080p
M='WBO'  # WBO, OTW, ONE
C='1'    # Yes, cURL
D='.'    # Directory
J='20'   # Threads
CLR='\x1b[37;22m' # Text Color
EOC='\x1b[m'

TEMP='/tmp/aPpLeTrAiLeRcHeCk'
ROOT='http://www.apple.com'
FAKE='QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)'

while getopts 'q:012n' opt ; do
   case $opt in
      q) Q=$OPTARG ;;
      0) M='ONE'   ;;
      1) M='WBO'   ;;
      2) M='OTW'   ;;
      n) C='0'     ;;
   esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`

[ $C == 1 ] && curl -s $ROOT/trailers/ -o "$TEMP"

if [ "$M" == 'WBO' ] ; then
   IFS='
'
   WBO_U=($(sed '/Weekend Box Office/,/weekendboxoffice/!d;/<li>/!d' "$TEMP" | cut -d\" -f4))
   unset IFS

   echo -ne "$CLR"
   echo '--== Weekend Box Office ==--'
   sed '/Weekend Box Office/,/weekendboxoffice/!d;/<li>/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/&amp;/\&/g;s/&hellip;/.../;s/^\t*/   /' "$TEMP"
   echo -ne "$EOC"

   echo 'Which ones are you interested in?' # e.g. reply:1 3 10

   read -a WBO_C
   for i in ${WBO_C[@]} ; do
      ((i--))
      #echo ${WBO_U[$i]}
      curl -s $ROOT${WBO_U[$i]} -o "$TEMP"X
      tr '<>' '\n' < "$TEMP"X | grep -F "$Q.mov" | sed 's/.*\(http.*_\)\([0-9]*p\.mov\).*/\1h\2/' |
      while read url ; do
         #echo $url
         aria2c -d "$D" -j "$J" -U "$FAKE" "$url"
      done
   done
elif [ "$M" == 'OTW' ] ; then
   IFS='
'
   OTW_U=($(sed '/Opening this Week/,/openingthisweek/!d;/<li>/!d' "$TEMP" | cut -d\" -f4))
   unset IFS

   echo -ne "$CLR"
   echo '--== Opening this Week ==--'
   sed '/Opening this Week/,/openingthisweek/!d;/<li>/!d;s/<[^>]*>//g;s/&amp;/\&/g;s/&hellip;/.../;s/^\t*//' "$TEMP" | sed '=' | sed 'N;s/\n/. /;s/^/   /'
   echo -ne "$EOC"

   echo 'Which ones are you interested in?'

   read -a OTW_C
   for i in ${OTW_C[@]} ; do
      ((i--))
      #echo ${OTW_U[$i]}
      curl -s $ROOT${OTW_U[$i]} -o "$TEMP"X
      tr '<>' '\n' < "$TEMP"X | grep -F "$Q.mov" | sed 's/.*\(http.*_\)\([0-9]*p\.mov\).*/\1h\2/' |
      while read url ; do
         #echo $url
         aria2c -d "$D" -j "$J" -U "$FAKE" "$url"
      done
   done
elif [ "$M" == 'ONE' ] ; then
   url=$(echo "$1" | sed 's/[0-9]*p.mov$/h&/')
   aria2c -d "$D" -j "$J" -U "$FAKE" "$url"
fi

h4rm0ny 2009-11-01 at 3:54 pm Reply

Just wanted to say thanks for this. Not so much the script (though that is neat), but for the information on what Apple was using to block my access and what to add to wget to get it back. Silly Apple.
ssanj 2010-01-16 at 1:47 am Reply

You rock! :) Was trying to find an easy way to do this for some time! :)
Will 2010-01-20 at 8:31 pm Reply

Sadly not working here.

./qt http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/captainaburaed/captainaburaed_720p.mov
–2010-01-20 20:30:09– http://movies.apple.com/movies/independent/captainaburaed/captainaburaed_h720p.mov
Resolving movies.apple.com… 72.246.30.59, 72.246.30.72
Connecting to movies.apple.com|72.246.30.59|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://www.apple.com/trailers/ [following]
–2010-01-20 20:30:09– http://www.apple.com/trailers/
Resolving http://www.apple.com... 72.247.109.15
Connecting to http://www.apple.com|72.247.109.15|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 24243 (24K) [text/html]
Saving to: `/home/rob/Desktop/captainaburaed_720p.mov’

100%[======================================>] 24,243 –.-K/s in 0.06s

2010-01-20 20:30:09 (366 KB/s) – `/home/rob/Desktop/captainaburaed_720p.mov’ saved [24243/24243]

Pietro Pizzi 2010-03-02 at 7:36 am Reply

Thanks, that’s a good idea!

I have pimpt the original script a little bit. With this version you can save the links you want in a file and download one after one automaticaly in a predifined place.

#!/bin/bash

trailerdir="/home/username/trailers"
mkdir -p "$trailerdir" || exit 1

trailerfile="${trailerdir}/trailers.txt"
if [ ! -f "$trailerfile" ]; then
	echo "the trailer-link-file doesn't exist at \"$trailerdir\""
fi

# first trailer link
trailer="$(head -n1 $trailerfile)"

while [ "$trailer" != "" ]; do
	# Prepend 'h' before resolution to create a valid url
	newurl=$(echo $trailer | sed 's/_\([0-9]*[0-9][0-9][0-9]\)p.mov/_h\1p.mov/g')

	# Download trailer and save to the desktop
	wget -U QuickTime/7.6.2 "$newurl" -O "${trailerdir}/${trailer##*/}" || exit 1

	# Play trailer with mplayer (using 200MB cache to be sure trailer is dl'd first)
	#mplayer -cache 200000 -user-agent 'QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)' $newurl

	sed "/$(echo $trailer | sed 's/.*\///')/d" "$trailerfile" > "${trailerfile}.tmp"
	mv "${trailerfile}.tmp" "$trailerfile"
	trailer="$(head -n1 $trailerfile)"
done

radixal 2010-03-04 at 3:48 am Reply

thank you for sharing this information … nice
Sweetie Bracelet 2010-12-02 at 2:31 pm Reply

i always watch moview trailers on youtube, it is really fun to watch so many movie trailers at once “‘*
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