2007/09/17

How To Download And Save Youtube Videos



Downloading online video feed is a trend recently. Due to the popular demand of Google Video download, Google has recently added a download links to all free video. You wouldn’t need any script again.

It is a good news that YouTube Videos can be downloaded as well. Joshua Kinberg at sandbox films created a Greasemonkey script which creates a link on the top of the screen for you to save the video locally. If you never get the live player working probably, YouTube Video Download script may be the good option. Here are the instructions:

  • 1. Install the Greasemonkey Extension for Firefox.

  • 2. Right-click this .js file and select "Install User Script" (if you don't see that option try step one again)

  • 3. Now on every youtube video page there should be a red bar at the top, that says "Save As" to download Flash video.

  • 4. Right click the text in the red bar, select "Save Link As," and save the file as a .flv file. Firefox will rty to save it as "get_video.php," you need to change the ".php" to ".flv," and change the first part to whatever you prefer.

  • Now you need to either download a media player that runs .flv files, or download a program that converts them to other file types. Here are links to both:

    FLV PLayers
    FLV Player
    VLC player

    FLV Converters
    Riva FLV Encoder
    Total Video Converter

  • 1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    The best way is to use a software to save youtube videos as AVI or MPEG which can be played on Windows Media Player.
    Check this article here http://dexterbaker.vox.com/library/post/the-problem-with-downloading-videos-from-youtube.html