Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Download YouTube Videos

So.. you found an interesting video in YouTube, but you cannot download them and watch them locally. What will you do? You will have to find a way in which you can download them right? Well, the solution might be Youtube-dl. It's a python-based script which can be used to download the videos directly from YouTube into your hard drive and you can watch them locally. The only requirement of this script is only installation of Python 2.4.x or newer. Once you have Python installed, you are set to go.

Here are the usage instruction taken from the original site:
Use youtube-dl followed by a video URL. Example: youtube-dl "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar". The video will be saved to the file foobar.flv in that example. As YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be flv. In Linux and other unices, video players using a recent version of ffmpeg can play them. That includes MPlayer, VLC, etc. Those two work under Windows and other platforms, but you could also get a specific FLV player of your taste.

Here's the screenshot on my initial testing:
Posted by at Wednesday, November 29, 2006

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:35 PM

    wow we can download video from youtube yihaaaaa
    that's good news for me and i want it.wil, do u have that file to install? give it to me ya

    thank u

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  2. Anonymous4:44 PM

    of course
    you can download the script from the site also. It's very very small. You will need to install Python interpreter first before you can start using it

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  3. Anonymous10:16 PM

    One of the easiest is to use a Web-based interface like this one:
    http://www.videodl.org/

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  4. Anonymous3:24 PM

    You can also use FireFox's plugin named Ookk? Video Ook! which can download the movie from youtube and similar website.

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  5. Willy Sudiarto Raharjo7:38 AM

    Thanks for all of the information. I hope it will be useful for other people as well

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  6. Anonymous8:31 PM

    i just use "zillatube" . it's a software to download from youtube very quickly.

    You can also use it to play or convert youtube videos.

    by the way, you can get it at
    http://www.zillatube.com

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  7. Unknown7:55 PM

    I have found an excelent tools for converting my youtube movies convertmovies.org . mp3, mp4, avi, mov, wma, ipod supported. Great!

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  8. Anonymous11:17 AM

    It's easy to Download YouTube, good stuff

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