Download YouTube Videos

12Jan06

YoutubeYesterday we showed you how to download videos from google video store, and today we teach you a trick on how to download a YouTube video. YouTube is vast when comapared to Google Videos and has videos ranging from movies to sports. And now you can download it all with this little hack by the people from SandBox Films:

  • Install Greasemonkey Extension for Firefox
  • Go to here for the YouTube To Me Video Download Script
  • Right click on the script link, and click Install User Script
  • Reload YouTube Video page, you should see the save as link on the top of the page

After installing the script, visit your favorite videos at YouTube. A red bar on top of the browser will appear with a link to save the video locally. YouTube Videos also require the FLV player which you can download from the link mentioned at the end of Google Video post.

Download YouTube Video

how to Convert the .flv to .avi

Update: KeepVid is a website which allows you to download embedded videos from around 40 different websites including YouTube, google videos, iFilm etc. It is simple fast and effective. All you need to do is enter the url and the video can be downloaded. Its hot. Go for it.

UPDATE 2: Youtube, Google video? Easily convert to avi or MPEG:
I guess using a Broadband Satellite connection will help you to get it in seconds!

Vdownloader: fast and easy solution to download flv videos online into avi or mpeg format.


Stick to the direction in the software. Click “Download”. Automatically it begins to unload the video, when the unloading finishes, it asks the format to you in which it has to keep it. I chose the one that I want (avi/MPEG), when that process finishes, is already ready so that you add it to your folder with videos ;) (via)
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  1. 1 expatriate on January 25, 2006 said:

    I simple way is that your simply install cache view from following site:

    http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~timj/cv/

    Then play your google, youtube, blinkx.tv videos in any browser. Browse the content thru cache view and copy on your desired location and run with any flv player. For instance following one:

    http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

    Enjoy

    Reply
  2. 2 bothack on January 25, 2006 said:

    Thank you Expatriate

    Reply
  3. 3 baihaqi on January 29, 2006 said:

    Now you can also post Youtube videos to wordpress.com.
    http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/01/26/youtube-support/

    Reply
  4. 4 bothack on January 30, 2006 said:

    Thanx for letting us know about it BaiHaqi.

    Reply
  5. 5 Epsilon on February 20, 2006 said:

    With the program Vdownloader you can download videos from YouTube and Google video in AVI or MPG formatwith just one click.

    It can be downloaded here:

    http://www.enriquepuertas.com/wp-content/files/vdownloader.zip

    :-)

    Reply
  6. 6 bothack on February 21, 2006 said:

    Epsilon,

    Thats quite a good news that you have chiped in with. Good! ;)

    Reply
  7. 7 Jonathan on March 3, 2006 said:

    seems like people tend to overcomplicate this…

    just enter the url as:

    http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=video-id-here

    example: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=Yuj5fo56Lbw

    and save the download with an .FLV extension

    Reply
  8. 8 No way on March 14, 2006 said:

    seems like people tend to overcomplicate this…

    just enter the url as:

    http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=video-id-here

    example: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=Yuj5fo56Lbw

    and save the download with an .FLV extension

    That didn’t work.

    Reply
  9. 9 downloadvideo on March 24, 2006 said:

    Here is a cool site which lets you download from youTube, Google Video, and iFilm.Iit also features video ranking, hot video list and personal collections of movies.

    http://www.bestube.com

    Hope this helps!!

    Reply
  10. 10 zfreez on March 26, 2006 said:

    You can download YouTube video at http://zfreez.com/web/Ut.htm
    The downloaded files will be in .flv format, so you don’t need to change extension or anything.

    Reply
  11. 11 Mary Koch on April 20, 2006 said:

    Jonathan’s method seems to be working for me. And the Greasemonkey procedure is not, I have followed all the directions and have no red bar across Firefox even though it says Greasemonkey is enabled and the needed script is installed.
    What I’ve done earlier is wait for the video to finish loading on YouTube and then find the file in my cache and just rename it with .flv extension.

    Reply
  12. 12 Darren on May 31, 2006 said:

    Here’s another great site to download YouTube videos directly – http://www.YouTubeX.com

    Reply
  13. 13 chamnab on July 25, 2006 said:

    please tell me a bout downlaod youtube

    Reply
  15. 15 Haryiips on October 13, 2006 said:

    Well thnks for the above posting still i wanna say tht i had for the first time seen ur posting after watching the comment by ur side …buddy i had not completly copied ur article and not even comment it to be mine . i had posted ur link to there in the article read it again it proves better then u r post …. can be reflected by the responce did i got … from the public also.. far the pic is concerned i had posted tht pic not from urs blog but from the guy of princeton univ bobet john who is my fren .. do a bit ground work before commeting to any1…. he had helped me a lot for the same i had not aware from where did he got tht

    good luck for the future postings..

    Reply
  16. 16 bothack on October 13, 2006 said:

    @Haryiips:
    “i had posted ur link to there in the article”
    Sorry I dont see the link. All I see is a blatant copy… word by word.

    “can be reflected by the responce did i got … from the public also..”

    Do a google search on “Download youtube videos” and you should know whose article it is… Bobet John or mine.

    “do a bit ground work before commeting to any1″

    Do a bit of ground work before flicking others posts…

    And thanks for the wishes. I seriously suggest you pull that info out. This blog is Creative commons licensed

    Reply
  17. 17 ismae on October 16, 2006 said:

    hola es bueno

    Reply
  18. 18 Sean Cotter on October 26, 2006 said:

    There is a much easier way to download Youtube videos – there is a product called VidVac on Ebay – it downloads YouTube, Google & XTube video with no need for messing with scripts – just browse and click!

    Cut and paste the link:

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=003&item=130040848238&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

    Reply
  20. 20 thomas on December 2, 2006 said:

    To save or download youtube videos I use SaveTube it’s so simple!

    Reply
  21. 21 cezy on December 8, 2006 said:

    how can i convert .flv to avi i whant aa program name for that

    Reply
  22. 22 thomas on December 15, 2006 said:

    cezy, if you go to SaveTube they got a tools section with which you can convert the flv to avi , mpg, etc. Hope this helps!

    Reply
  23. 23 moris on December 19, 2006 said:

    hello, great work, great site, visit my homepage!!!

    Reply
  24. 24 max paine on December 29, 2006 said:

    many,many thanks to Epsilon !!! :)
    the rest of you how upload the same fucking program, fuck you.
    I mean what’s wrong with you people.
    you upload a program to share with the rest of the class, but you “forget” to POST THE PASSWORD.
    fucking idiots

    Reply
  25. 25 Ltu on December 31, 2006 said:

    For max paine, and other people who can’t find pswrd in the rar. the PASSWORD is “elblogdenits.com.ar” without commas. Thanks for attention :) Happy New Year.

    Reply
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  30. 30 gayungs on February 23, 2007 said:

    Internet download manager can download Google FLV video & Youtube FLV Video automaticly

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  31. 31 bbb on February 28, 2007 said:

    I recommend http://www.snatchvid.com it’s very easy and fast to use!

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  32. 32 Coleision on March 1, 2007 said:

    I have an easy app that Downloads from YouTube, MySpace and many more. Then converts the file to iPod, PSP, DVD, XviD, 3gp, Zune, VCD, SVCD. It does it all! Very easy to use 3 step process! Ohh and did I mention you have full control over the quality settings? That is awesome!

    http://MyVideoDownloader.com

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  33. 33 youtube avi video files on March 1, 2007 said:

    I WANT A WEBSITE OR A SOFTWARE DAT CAN GET YOU TUBE VIDEOS AND CONVERT THEM TO AVI FORMAT AND IS FREE

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  35. 35 Gaetan Mathey on March 6, 2007 said:

    Why to download softwares ?

    Just enter the YouTube URL and choose between downloading it in FLV or AVI file format.

    http://virginie.mathey.co.uk/

    Gaetan

    Reply
  36. 36 noactive on March 8, 2007 said:

    You can view and download youtube video from http://topvideoshare.com

    Reply
  37. 37 rohit on March 8, 2007 said:

    http://vixy.net/

    Just copy and paste the URL to download the video in four differnt formats

    Reply
  38. 38 soft-ar on March 11, 2007 said:

    Thank you

    Reply
  39. 39 Mike on March 22, 2007 said:

    Free FLV players, scripts and video tools including a youtube player
    FLV encoder,
    Youtube video share software and more

    at http://videospark.com

    Reply
  40. 40 Kingston_falls on April 6, 2007 said:

    the one Epsilon posted works it is easy to use and it REALLY WORKS

    THANKS Epsilon

    Reply
  41. 41 tinycut on April 7, 2007 said:

    You can also simply download clips from http://www.tinycut.net. It’s fast and easy. Plus you don’t need any software at all. Download from tinycut anywhere at any time.

    Reply
  42. 42 nathan on April 9, 2007 said:

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  43. 43 hazhl on April 9, 2007 said:

    Good site!!!

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  44. 44 cool_dimens on April 14, 2007 said:

    Unlike other similar services, YouTube Video allows only viewing video inside client’s browser (YouTube’s video player is designed to be used within your browser as an Internet experience), and currently you can’t download our videos to your computer. But it can be easily downloaded and converted to the common “avi” format with Naevius YouTube Converter!

    http://www.naevius.com/youtube_converter.htm

    Reply
  45. 45 Halil on May 13, 2007 said:

    You can download videos over 40 different video sharing sites with http://www.vidoho.com/download.php blip.tv , break, clipfish , collegehumor , current.tv , dailymotion , google , grouper , ifilm , izlesene , liveleak , livevideo , metacafe , myspace , myvideo , pikniktube ,revver ,rutube.ru , sharkle, stupidvideos, teachertube, trilulilu.ro, twango, veoh, videa.hu, video.qq.com, vidivodo, vidmax, viewurself, vimeo, vmix, vsocial, vume, yahoo, youku, youtube, zippyvideos

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  46. 46 veint nht on May 20, 2007 said:

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  47. 47 Mohammed Montasser Ali on June 2, 2007 said:

    Why download you can use the website http://video.qooqle.jp/dl/ to download the YouTube videos for free.

    Reply
  48. 48 Brian on June 13, 2007 said:

    Great solution… I use Zillatube – it download youtube videos very fast. Play them easily. If you want, it can even convert to other videos formats with good quality.

    It’s at http://www.zillatube.com .That’s it! ================================

    Reply
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  52. 52 orlando on July 30, 2007 said:

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  53. 53 vivek on August 29, 2007 said:

    thnx

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  54. 54 vivek on August 29, 2007 said:

    direct download high quality kannada videos here..

    http://kannada-musicvideos.blogspot.com/

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  55. 55 smail on September 8, 2007 said:

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  56. 56 mstax on September 8, 2007 said:

    Well… my “trick” for saving youtube videos is…

    WHILE the video is still playing (and AFTER the progress bar indicates that the whole video is cached) go to the Temporary Internet Files folder and sort by size… you can PAUSE the video if it is short and will finish playing before you can finish getting it.

    The big files (sort by SIZE) will be the flv files (whether or not they are tagged as such) – figure out which is the one being watched at the moment and right-click/copy the FILE NAME.

    PASTE to somewhere – desktop, perhaps – and then rename as desired, adding “.flv” to the name.

    VOILA! You now have saved the video…

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  57. 57 Martin on September 9, 2007 said:

    Loads of Free Music Clips – http://www.clipstube.net

    ENjoY!

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  58. 58 Martin on September 11, 2007 said:

    Another great site to download videos from Youtube

    http://www.download.videos.from.youtube.clipstube.net

    Reply
  59. 59 farmer_jays on September 24, 2007 said:

    how to download the videos from sidereel??

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  60. 60 Antonella Barbara on September 27, 2007 said:

    I use Get2pc.com with multi download

    Reply
  62. 62 flv2video on November 12, 2007 said:

    u can try moyea flv downloader, I’ve been using it for a long time. it is able to save and download any streaming video from youtube,Google Video, Myspace, Metacafe, Dailymotion, iFilm, Music, eVideoShare, StreetFire, etc. off to your computer’s hard drive free.
    http://www.flvsoft.com/download_flv/

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  63. 63 Alex on November 26, 2007 said:

    i prefer use http://www.down-tube.com/ , simple and fast

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  66. 66 Canon Sx100 on December 26, 2007 said:

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  67. 67 Pat on December 31, 2007 said:

    Here is a site you can search, view and download YouTube video to your PC.

    http://www.ilikeyoutube.com/

    Enjoy!

    Reply
  68. 68 canon a650 on January 19, 2008 said:

    youtube is my favorite site for videos ;)

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  69. 69 Andy on February 2, 2008 said:

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  70. 70 Andy on February 2, 2008 said:

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  73. 73 Mr.Legend on March 30, 2008 said:

    hi,
    try to download youtube videos on
    http://www.downloadyoutubevids.com
    Here you can also search, watch and download youtue videos

    Reply
  74. 74 Robbin on April 20, 2008 said:

    There is also a web based http://www.informkey.com/youtubevideokeep.php

    Reply
  75. 75 Webcreation on May 5, 2008 said:

    Watch YouTube HD – higher definition, and direct download MP4 videos, check this site :

    http://www.ouideo.com/youtube/

    Really good !

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  76. 76 download youtube on May 11, 2008 said:

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  78. 78 Ajeje on June 23, 2008 said:

    To download high quality video in mp4 format (and normal videos too) I use http://www.tubedownloader.info

    It is a free online tool, so you don’t have to install any software on your computer.

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  80. 80 videoswiper on July 10, 2008 said:

    One of the hottest web 2.0 applications been launched on the net in July 2008 is VideoSwiper a multi user, multi script mass video embedding application that works with most if not all the top video sharing community scripts. Scripts like Clipshare, Vidiscript, PHPmotion, Clipbucket, Social Media, Video CMS, OSTube, Vshare, Media Share Suite, PHPMelody & iVidPlay to name but a few.

    VideoSwiper searches from 30 of the net’s top video site and has already got over 25,000,000 videos in its database, users who own a video sharing script sign up for an account, search for media, edit and manipulate the media then mass send the results directly to their websites.

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  81. 81 martinetrz on August 21, 2008 said:

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  82. 82 Rian on December 23, 2008 said:

    You can also use a great online facility to download and convert Youtube videos.

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