HowTo: Download YouTube videos (the easy way)

[wersdaluv]

That is AMAZING!

It even works for pages that youtube video downloaders can't download from like http://youtube.com/watch?v=FhAdjEvyWEk

[genbuntu]

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!

Wow man; this is really simple and simply great
does not require any software (as long as one is watching it on computer , no conversion needed)

[fululian]

thanks a bunch. i really don't d'like to know how many things like these i still am not aware of. *shudder

[Kadrus]

haha..pretty sweet stuff indeed ..
There is also keepvid.com or something like this
You copy the link of the video into keepvid.com(there is an input to copy the link to)and you press download..and that's it

[fululian]

i let the vid complete downloading, switch to /temp, and get the flash-video copied onto the desktop. however, when i go back to firefox, the browser crashes if i cut-and-pasted the file. it seems you may only copy, not cut.

[FRuMMaGe]

i let the vid complete downloading, switch to /temp, and get the flash-video copied onto the desktop. however, when i go back to firefox, the browser crashes if i cut-and-pasted the file. it seems you may only copy, not cut.

I just drag it. Maybe firefox is looking for the file that no longer exists.

[Co.Sinecure]

FYI, youtube-dl has been updated (since youtube itself was updated and broke the old version!)
Feisty repos have the old version. Don't know about gutsy.

Link is here here (provided by forum-user hyperair)

[genbuntu]

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!

I wonder which temp directory to look for in 'Internet explorer' . Couldn't find it in 'temporary files'.

[helpee]

Oh, dear god. Thank you. THANK YOU.

[Kopfgeldjaeger]

I have written a little PyGTK video downloader (also commandline) for that; http://code.google.com/p/vdown/
*promote*

I hope that's OK here

Looks like that (also German):