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How to Download Video from Google or YouTube

Easy Ways to Download Video from Google, YouTube, iFilm and Many More Video Websites

Ace Huynh
Google.com and Youtube.com are two huge "video libraries". However, these two websites do not let you to download their video to your computer. Is there any solution?

Yes! I will show you some methods to download video from Google, Youtube and other video sites to your computer free.

KEEPVID.COM

By using Keepvid.com, you can download video file from Google or Youtube to your computer quickly. For example, I want to download a video file from Youtube. I have to follow these steps:

1. Copy the URL of your video file. My Youtube link is http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVQZeWoWVng
2. Click here to go to the website.
3. Choose Youtube
4. Click Download
5. Click the link appeared to download the video.

You can download your video as .avi, .flv, .mp4. You can also use Keepvid.com to download from many other video websites.

VIXY.NET

If you possess an Ipod or a PSP, this website really helps you to transfer video from websites to your pocket device. It converts Youtube video to Ipod or PSP format. The process of downloading video from vixy.net is similar to keepvid.com

1. Go to your desired video page and copy the URL.
2. Click here to go to the website.
3. Copy the URL of your desired video into URL blank on the site.
4. You can save your video as *.avi file for Window, *.mov file for Mac, *.MP4 for iPod and PSP, *.3pg for cell phone or MP3 for audio only.
5. Click "Start" to begin converting process.
6. After the process is finished, click "Download the converted video".

With this website, you are able to download not only video from youtube but also from dailymotion, google, ifilm, metacafe...

DOWNLOADYOUTUBEVIDEOS.COM

Compare with two sites above, this site has it has many disadvantages. This site can only download video from Youtube. You can only choose to download your file as flv file. Besides, the website's name is too long to type. The way to use Downloadyoutubevideos.com is the same as keepvid.com or vixy.net.

1. You have to go to your desired video page and copy the URL.
2. Click here to access the page.
3. Paste in your URL.
4. Click "Download" and wait for the page to redirect you.
5. Click at button "Click here to download the file".

After downloading, you have to use VLC video player (the link is provided below) to watch your video. Besides these three websites, you can use web browser like Opera or Mozilla Firefox to download video from Youtube. All you need to do is search and install add-on feature called "Video Downloader add-on". However, as I experienced, web browsers have very slow downloading speed. Moreover, you can only download video as flash file. Therefore, I recommend you to use these two websites. (If you still want to download video by web browsers, you can download VLC video player free from here to play flash file).

Published by Ace Huynh

Hi everybody. I am a full-time student at University of California, San Diego. Through writing those articles, I really like to make new friends online. Thank you for all of your comments and opinions!   View profile

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  • Jenny 6/16/2010

    Try Getv: http://getv-en.super-idol.com/

    Detailed tutorial to download youtoube videos by Getv:
    http://getvmaster.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-use-getv-to-download-youtube.html

    Getv is a free, easy, safe site to download youtube videos.
    Just paste the video URLs and you can get your favorite videos very quickly.
    Videos can be downloaded as FLV, MP4, 3GP(good quality as well), etc,
    You can also search your favorite youtube videos directly on Getv.

  • sradha 4/1/2009

    Here is a site that more use full than downloadyoutubevideos.com download youtube videos on the fly,in any format http://youtubeddl.com dirict download from youtube server

  • Kika 3/12/2009

    http://rapidshareaza.com

  • rapid 2/17/2009

    downloads from rapid share, find links, works great
    http://rapidshareaza.com

  • Ivanski 2/17/2009

    http://comunalec.com

  • Video Lover 9/4/2008

    Here is a great site to download videos from youtube , simply search videos and click on download button to download (FLV link to download low quality videos and MP4 link to download High Quality Videos), no need to copy and paste video urls, a great, simple and easy tool for video down loaders.

    http://www.vidmaza.com

  • NORMAN ABEL 8/14/2008

    in
    http://innovasitio.com/video

    is another alternative for downloading videos
    youtube, it's easy to search allows the database youtube, after clicking and ready to download

  • NORMAN ABEL 8/14/2008

    in
    http://innovasitio.com/video

    is another alternative for downloading videos
    youtube, it's easy to search allows the database youtube, after clicking and ready to download

  • robert 2/14/2008

    use http://seektv.info
    Its the best site for downloading and watching videos

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyeaXaNq0s 6/16/2007

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyeaXaNq0s

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