var http = require('http'); http.get("http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=F_CvDj8pLo0", function(res) { console.log("Got response: " + res.statusCode); var chunks = []; res.on('data', function(chunk){chunks.push(chunk)} ); res.on('end', function(){ parseVideoInfo(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString()) } ) }).on('error', function(e) { console.log("Got error: " + e.message); }); function parseVideoInfo(videoInfo) { var rxUrlMap = /url_encoded_fmt_stream_map=([\]\[!"#$%'()*+,.\/:;<=>?@\^_`{|}~-\w]*)/; urlmap = unescape(videoInfo.match(rxUrlMap)[1]); //console.log(urlmap); var rxUrl= /url=([\]\[!"#$%'()*+,.\/:;<=>?@\^_`{|}~-\w]*)/; url = unescape(urlmap.match(rxUrl)[1]) console.log(url); }