Download YouTube Videos
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How can i download YouTube Videos to my system. ? Everybody have this question. YouTube uses flash player for playing video files.
The advantage of flash player is , most of the web browsers now support swf files. The format of the video is FLV. So if you download the video from youtube , you only get the flv format of the video. So you need flv player in your system. Windows Media Player’s Latest version supports flv file format .
But it is impossible to download the flv file directly from the youtube site. If you take “view source” you cant see any flv files or any “save target as link” there. There are a lot of websites and web tools to download flv files from youtube video url. But these all are not working now, since youtube have changed there default website structure and implemention of the flv player. So these above sites will give you a result “Invalid URL Entry”.
Here the ultimate and simple way to download any video or audio which is playing from your browser (not only youtube videos) can be downloaded using “Firebug”, Mozilla’s Plugin.
Read my article on How to install Firebug from here
Steps for downloading flv video are:
1) Take the YouTube Video in your mozilla browser.
2) From the All/Net tab you can see all the downloading contents. From that find which url is downloading an flv file.
3) Today i can see a get_video link, it may not be same as the youtube all the time. If you + (expand) that, You can see the header part of that file,
saying :Content Type: video/flv
4) Right Click on that link and click copy location. This is the url for your flv file. Download using browser or any download manager like flashget etc.
NB1 : Youtube may change this soon 
NB2: This can be used for downloading any streaming video or audio content. [ Happy ?? ]
Some other urls for downloading Youtube Videos:
http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/
Thank You and Enjoy Videos
Regards
Sajith.M.R
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Pat said:
Here is a site where you can search, view and download YouTube videos to you PC.
Enjoy!
January 14th, 2008 at 6:59 pm -
Vivek Thomas said:
Here is another site.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:23 pm -
steveking said:
YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.
YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.
Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
Product page: w ww.youtuberobot.com
Direct download link: w ww.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
web-site: w ww.youtuberobot.comAugust 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm -
Anish K.S said:
Can use the Mozilla Add on Download Helper. Its Pretty good.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:35 am
