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Ravan
Asked: 2016-01-06 20:19:46 +0800 CST

How to get md5sum for online video without download

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I am using Ubuntu. Is it possible to check md5sum of a video using its URL?

In man md5sum :

md5sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...

So no URL. Is there any way to check md5sum

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1 Answers

  1. Note: If just a symbol is changed in the file's content, md5sum will provide another result.

    It is impossible to do it on the fly, because md5sum is calculated by reading the file from the beginning till the end and to calculate it md5sum needs to have the file locally.

    There are programs that calculates md5sum using its URL. But they will first download it and then calculate its md5sum.

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