A simple python script that takes a youku video url or video id as argument and output the video playlist.

youku-video-parser.py

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import sys
import urllib
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class FlvcdParser(HTMLParser):

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == "a":
            self.inHref = True
            attrDict = { attrName: attrValue for attrName, attrValue in attrs }
            if 'onclick' in attrDict:
                print attrDict['href']

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    if sys.argv[1].startswith("http://"):
        youkuUrl = sys.argv[1]
    else:
        youkuUrl = 'http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_%s.html' % sys.argv[1]
    flvcdUrl = 'http://www.flvcd.com/parse.php?kw=%s&format=super' % urllib.quote_plus(youkuUrl)

    parser = FlvcdParser()
    parser.feed(urllib.urlopen(flvcdUrl ).read())
else:
    print "Usage: %s [ videoid | videourl ]" % sys.argv[0]


# Sample usage: ./youku.py "http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_ABCDEFGHI1234.html" | xargs mplayer