Having troubles downloading google videos in china. I found this excellent post, http://www.isaacmao.com/meta/2006/07/how-to-view-google-video-locally-in.html”.

Trick here, is for your browser to use anonymous access. This is where TOR comes to the picture.

  1. Follow the steps above in setting up TOR.
  2. You should see two (2) icons on your system tray–1 Privoxy and 2Tor.
  3. Go to D:\Vidalia Bundle\Torbutton\ and drag torbutton-1.0.4-fx+tb.xpi to Firefox to install the plugin. Restart Firefox.
  4. To test your settings: Go to tor detector.

TOR-disabled:
219.142.136.4 (4.136.142.219.broad.bj.bj.dynamic.163data.com.cn)

TOR:
88.84.142.165 (v29465.1blu.de)

  1. Now we can view google video from China.
  2. To download the video, view source the file after the flash video has initialized
  3. Look for: “googleplayer.swf?&videoUrl“, copy and paste the URL until you see “&messagesUrl\u003“
  4. Now fire up your PL of choice and unescape the string
<cfset temp="http%3A%2F%2Fvp.video.google.com%2Fvideodownload%3Fversion%3D0%26secureurl%3DtwAAAJXmdl7RAbyfYcDwHzBiBVKQtqUQSoSZfAnVXGhsGvKxwTGSF0kNuXRAvMyVxKs6uXkGf3muen2mfnv_D21e3Wkw89ngl9-GEELOIiKHZtJsfUc_kYbKHHMieqsUs92S5ALoyWiWZBeX3SaNdyNTNuc6h1aPjG9EBrGIK4sf0s9Zrl5npjJiUZJ8j_mKWj9YQFhnHOkL-t7XUBBxJuXGeK2ORTrfBPecXPAC-ql_GlIwWIDkAWP6bVCeej0uFln-EA%26sigh%3Dyt6dfQtoXjSdikbv9o9y5YADjj8%26begin%3D0%26len%3D6009275%26docid%3D1135114630744003385">
 
<cfoutput>
<a href="#URLDecode(temp)#">#URLDecode(temp)#</a>
</cfoutput>
</cfset>

Once downloaded, you can view it from google’s video player. GoogleVideoPlayerSetup.exe