A HTTP-Proxy that allows to watch videos in VLC or download them or do other things.

The proxy runs on port 8000. Add it to your browser and whenever a video (determined by the .mp4, .flv, .avi or .ogm extension) should be loaded the proxy intercepts and instead of delivering the video shows a notification offering you to watch the video in VLC and copy the CURL-Download command to the clipboard.

You can change the port it is listening on by adding a command line parameter to the call like this:

ruby video-proxy.rb 2342

This program requires the following ruby gems:

• webrick
• terminal-notifier

This proxy currently only works on OSX but it only takes little changes to make it run on other platforms. You'd only need to exchange the notfification system and adjust the commands as described below.

You can easily modify the COMMANDS-array in order to change what should be done once the user clicks a video notification. The %s reflects the video URL whereas %r is the referer URL.