YouTube, the most popular video sharing site on the internet, allows its users to upload and share videos easily but doesn’t provide any way to download them.So if you are a YouTube fan and would love to download some of the videos to your computer so that you may watch them again, without the need to visit the site again, then here are 4 quick ways to do that.
2. YouTubeLoader Firefox Plugin
The youtubeloader firefox plugin is a Greasemonkey script, which adds a Download MP4 link below the YouTube video (as seen in Firefox 3)
After you click on that Download MP4 link, it takes you to a separate page where it gives you more download options. From there, you can finally download it in the desired format.
2. Tube Leecher
Tube Leecher is a very simple, no-frills YouTube videos download site, which allows you to download Youtube videos in flv format through the YouTube video link. It’s probably the simplest of all the tools mentioned.
I’m sure there are many more such tools available. If you know about any other tool which you think is better than the above, then mention them in the comments!
3. Add a ‘ Kiss ‘
Yes, you heard me right You just need to add the word ‘kiss’ to the YouTube video URL and then it directs you to a website where you can download it as a .flv video or convert it other formats as well.
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Result for: Firefox
Downloading YouTube 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.
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, Download YouTube Video script may be the good option. Here are the instructions:
Reload YouTube Video page, you should see the save as link on the top of the page
Go to here for the YouTube To Me Video Download Script
Install Greasemonkey Extension for Firefox
Right click on the script link, and click Install User Script
Result for: Firefox
Download Youtube videos - Last time I explained how YouTube videos can be downloaded with gawk programming language by getting the YouTube page where the video is displayed and finding out how the flash video player retrieves the FLV (flash video) media file.
This time I’ll use Perl programming language which is my favorite language at the moment and write a one-liner which downloads a YouTube video.Instead of parsing the YouTube video page, let’s look how an embedded YouTube video player on a 3rd party website gets the video.
Let’s go to this cool video and look at the embed html code:
For this video it looks as following:
<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtuberobot.com/products/images/2008/08/oneliner-embedded-xj8.jpg”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtuberobot.com/products/images/2008/08/oneliner-embedded-xj8.jpg” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed></object>
So far we have no information how the flash player will retrieve the video, the only thing we know that ‘iurl’ stands for ‘image url’ and is the location of the thumbnail image.
The FireFox’s alternative to this tool is Live HTTP Headers extension which basically does the same as HttpWatch Professional but it takes more time to understand the output.
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