HowTo: Download YouTube videos (the easy way)

[FRuMMaGe]

Many people have been asking how to download youtube videos, and kept being pointed to useless software which will do it for them.

Here is the easy way:

Step 1: Find the video you want to download and wait for it to completely finish loading.

Step 2: Minimize your browser (do NOT close it, some browsers delete the temp directory upon closing), and navigate to the directory /tmp

Step 3: Drag the flash file onto your desktop. Voila!

This definitely works with firefox, and probably most other browsers aswell. Enjoy!

[sad_iq]

Here is a simple way also: Find the video you want to download...let's say this one here:http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY
You don't need to watch it or anything...then in the address bar on top of ANY browser put kiss in front of the youtube...so the address will be http://kissyoutube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY
That will take you to a page that will give you the preview of the video(like youtube) and a lot of links ...and one of them is Download Now (guess what it does )

[SPARTAN-118]

Here is a simple way also: Find the video you want to download...let's say this one here:http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY
You don't need to watch it or anything...then in the address bar on top of ANY browser put kiss in front of the youtube...so the address will be http://kissyoutube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY
That will take you to a page that will give you the preview of the video(like youtube) and a lot of links ...and one of them is Download Now (guess what it does )

Yeah, but some videos are too large to download this way (for example, Weird Al Yankovic's "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" is about 11 minutes long and you get THIS error:

The requested URL /get_video... is too large to process.

This has happened to me on a number of occasions, from Halo 3 Montages to Sonic X episode parts (the good Japanese subbed ones, not the crappy North American english ones).

Also, the same error message kinda ruins the magic, since it shows that Kissyoutube uses Google Video to download the file.

[SPARTAN-118]

Sorry for the double post, but here's a good [online] service that allows you to download Youtube videos:
http://www.youtubecatcher.com/

Whatever you do, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE TOOLBAR!!!!!
Even if you have WINE, since it totally screwed up my computer (I couldn't get into any Internet-related programs, and had to back up my files to Windows and re-install Ubuntu - again!)

SPARTAN-118

[isbiyanto]

Here is a simple way also: Find the video you want to download...let's say this one here:http://youtube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY
You don't need to watch it or anything...then in the address bar on top of ANY browser put kiss in front of the youtube...so the address will be http://kissyoutube.com/watch?v=2BCoZiSbGtY
That will take you to a page that will give you the preview of the video(like youtube) and a lot of links ...and one of them is Download Now (guess what it does )

It's work for me.
thanks for all, nice info.
sample: http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=CKMOMQo035M

[isbiyanto]

can i save file in *.mp3 or *.mp4?

[Belinrahs]

There are also a few services I've seen floating around, web-based, that grab the YouTube FLA file, and convert it to MPEG-4.

Google it..

[FRuMMaGe]

There are also a few services I've seen floating around, web-based, that grab the YouTube FLA file, and convert it to MPEG-4.

Google it..

These usuall take ages though.

I'm assuming people can convert the videos themselves if they see it necessary.

Personally, I use WinFF to convert all my videos. You can also use to it convert to iPod format

[bashologist]

Cool, that's really neat, didn't know that.

Check out this nice bash script.

#!/bin/bash
flash=$(ls -t /tmp/Flash* | head -n 1)
destination=$(find ~/.mozilla -name sessionstore.js -exec sed 's/.*title:"\([^"]*\).*selected.*/\1/' {} \;)
echo "waiting for download to finish ..."
size=$(du $flash)
while sleep 5s; do
	if [ "$size" != "$(du $flash)" ]; then
		size=$(du $flash)
		continue
	else
		break
	fi
done
cp "$flash" "$HOME/${destination////%2f}.swf"

Load a YouTube web page, wait a few seconds, run it, then look in your home directory. n_n

[qpieus]

Cool, that's really neat, didn't know that.

Check out this nice bash script.

#!/bin/bash
flash=$(ls -t /tmp/Flash* | head -n 1)
destination=$(find ~/.mozilla -name sessionstore.js -exec sed 's/.*title:"\([^"]*\).*selected.*/\1/' {} \;)
echo "waiting for download to finish ..."
size=$(du $flash)
while sleep 5s; do
	if [ "$size" != "$(du $flash)" ]; then
		size=$(du $flash)
		continue
	else
		break
	fi
done
cp "$flash" "$HOME/${destination////%2f}.swf"

Load a YouTube web page, wait a few seconds, run it, then look in your home directory. n_n

That's brilliant, thanks. I've been wanting to save a few youtube videos and this worked perfectly.