title: How to get direct video download link with youku
body: <p>I'm trying to get the direct file download link from youku. </p>
  
  <p>Example URL: <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDU0MTgxNzI0.html" rel="nofollow">http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDU0MTgxNzI0.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I have used an video download website trying to mimic the download paths. I used hxxp://flvcd . com to parse the link. (You can paste in the example URL in the search filed and then you will get the result, there should be 4 link).</p>
  
  <p>Once I got the 4 direct link, I used fiddler2 to capture the HTTP output. I was able to locate the first part of the video (There should be 4 according to the flvcd website) </p>
  
  <p>I have tried searching the direct download link strings in the page source but could not find any matches. I suppose the actual direct links are fetched using the site javascript ? </p>
  
  <p>Could anybody shed some light on this ?</p>