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Tech Tip of the Week: Effortless Ways to Download Video Content from YouTube and Other Sites
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We bet at least once you've wondered about downloading a clip and although there are many tips and services around to help you accomplish such a feat, here's a few we consider to be the best.
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Guest on February 3, 2010 6:06 AM |
What about VDownloader! It's a great program, used it tons of times to download videos |
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Guest on February 3, 2010 11:31 AM |
or you can put OK in front of the url like this http://www.OKyoutube.com/watch?v=fKhBBZ3ECNU simple |
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kg363 on February 3, 2010 3:04 PM |
Can't get it you work with chrome. Can't add it as a bookmark |
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Matthew on February 3, 2010 3:47 PM |
KG363, use the following text as the URL for a new bookmark in Chrome (click here to see the code properly if you're looking at the front page news comments): [code]java script  function(){if(document.getElementById('download-youtube-vide'))return;var%20args=null,video_title=null,video_id=null,v deo_hash=null;var%20download_code=new%20Array();var%20fmt_ abels={'18':'standard%20MP4','22':'HD%20720p','37':'HD%201 80p'};try{args=yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS');video_title=yt.get onfig('VIDEO_TITLE')}catch(e){}if(args){var%20fmt_url_map= nescape(args['fmt_url_map']);if(fmt_url_map=='')return;vid o_id=args['video_id'];video_hash=args['t'];video_title=vid o_title.replace(/[%22\'\?\\\/\:\*%3C%3E]/g,'');var%20fmt=n w%20Array();var%20formats=fmt_url_map.split(',');var%20for at;for(var%20i=0;i%3Cformats.length;i++){var%20format_elem =formats.split('|');fmt[format_elems[0]]=unescape(format_e ems[1])}for(format%20in%20fmt_labels){if(fmt[format]!=null {download_code.push('%3Ca%20href=\''+(fmt[format]+'&title= +video_title)+'\'%3E'+fmt_labels[format]+'%3C/a%3E')}else% 0if(format=='18'){download_code.push('%3Ca%20href=\'http:/ www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id='+video_id+'&t=' video_hash+'\'%3E'+fmt_labels[format]+'%3C/a%3E')}}}if(vid o_id==null||video_hash==null)return;var%20div_embed=docume t.getElementById('watch-embed-div');if(div_embed){var%20di _download=document.createElement('div');div_download.inner TML='%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cspan%20id=\'download-youtube-video\'%3 Download:%20'+download_code.join('%20|%20')+'%3C/span%3E'; iv_embed.appendChild(div_download)}})();void(0)[/code] |
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jgvmx on February 3, 2010 4:13 PM |
Firefox users can also use the videodownload helper add-on. |
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Matthew on February 3, 2010 4:36 PM |
Firefox users can also use the videodownload helper add-on.  That was mentioned in the article: A Firefox favorite, Video DownloadHelper works on dozens of sites besides YouTube (MySpace, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost, etc.) and includes a slew of configuration and automatic conversion options.
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kg363 on February 3, 2010 8:16 PM |
Thanks a bunch |
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Guest on February 4, 2010 6:05 PM |
Full ac! +1 |
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BluStang05 on February 8, 2010 12:37 AM |
sweet tips |
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aneesh on March 19, 2010 5:21 AM |
For the last few days i am looking for such a trick....now i got it yeahhhhhh |
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Classic Rock on April 1, 2010 11:21 AM |
Ok, I've tried going to the page suggeted in this article, [link] But it appears that the link is no longer active. Can someone please point me in the right direction to get this from another place? |
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hellokitty[hk] on May 19, 2010 4:31 PM |
Sorry to bring this from the dead, but the URL doesn't seem to work for Chrome on the new Youtube, haven't tried anything else. Is there a revision? |
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Matthew on May 19, 2010 6:09 PM |
HK, placing "OK" in the URL still works as Guest suggested above: |
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hellokitty[hk] on May 19, 2010 7:15 PM |
HK, placing "OK" in the URL still works a Guest suggested above: Oh wow...
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