Downloading Youtube Videos.

THE-MASTER · Post by **THE-MASTER** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:01 am

Well youtube seems to have changed the way that they load videos so none of the greasemonkey scripts or bookmarklets work anymore (maybe its just me...)

The external sites don't seem to be working either so I just decided to threw up this little script for myself and thought it might be useful for someone else.

Its very basic but does what it says on the tin.

To use it just paste the youtube url behind this link:
http://hal0.org/toob/?page=

Or you could use the bookmarklet.

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javascript: function downloadvideo(vid){location.href="http://hal0.org/toob/?page="+vid;} var vid=location.href; downloadvideo(vid);

Just paste that into the address bar when on a youtube video you want or add it as a bookmark and click it when you are on youtube and want a video.

Note, it doesn't work for flagged videos.

reanimation-06 · Post by **reanimation-06** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:41 am

Legal?

THE-MASTER · Post by **THE-MASTER** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:20 am

reanimation-06 wrote:Legal?

I am fairly sure as long as the video you are downloading isn't copyrighted.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:13 am

Vixy.net isn't working anymore?

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:16 am

TomClancey wrote:Vixy.net isn't working anymore?

It works.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:04 am

DownloadHelper still works.

FleetAdmiralBacon · Post by **FleetAdmiralBacon** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:05 am

Psh, when I watch YouTube videos, the Linux version of Flash stores the FLV in my /tmp directory, and FFMPEG (the greatest video converter ever) accepts it and can convert it to a standard MPG.

Legal?

Of course it's legal, you're just extracting a FLV file. Places like Google Video do it for you (I'm still wondering why this was never added to YouTube, though...)

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:07 am

Vixy.net = win.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:12 am

bibbit wrote:Vixy.net = win.

Indeed. Especially the installable one, It's much faster.

THE-MASTER · Post by **THE-MASTER** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:53 am

Vixy.net and download helper work because they can tell what files the swf is requesting and then give you the link or convert it or whatever. Any of the javascript methods of downloading youtube videos and ones which used the source of youtube to download the video no longer work except this one.

Also you can use the cache from any browser to download flvs it is just more difficult on Windows computers, but flash files seems to make firefox crash a lot for me in linux... maybe its just me.