How to Save YouTube Videos

Eric Yu
Many of you out there probably have used YouTube before. It's that nifty little site where you can watch the lives and antics of millions of people out there. And then you probably came across a video clip you wish you could have saved onto your computer for a later viewing. Well, now you can!

Required Tools
1) Greasemonkey, an addon for Mozilla Firefox - get it free here
2) FLV Player , a interactive media player - get it free here

Instructions

1) Install Greasemonkey onto your Firefox browser by clicking on the download link at the link above.

2) Restart Firefox.

2) Now, every time you watch a Youtube video, there should be a little red bar at the top of your window that says "Save As to download flash video".

3) Rightclick that option and click "Save link as".

4) Save it to whatever name you want, but add on the extension of ".flv" at the end of the name.

5) Download FLV Player at the link above.

6) Install it onto your computer.

7) Now open FLV Player, click File > Open, and find the video file you just downloaded and named.

Voila. Now you can download all those online flash videos, accessible to view at a later date.

Stay tuned for more tutorials on miscellaneous computer tasks.

Published by Eric Yu

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  • tubekeeper4/10/2011

    You can also visit this site,

    http://www.tubekeeper.com

    copy and paste youtube video page URL and paste to the site,
    it will generate download link for you (FLV, MP4, 3GP).

    Facebook, Metacafe video download supported too.

  • Balu5/22/2009

    no need any third party softwares to save or download youtube or metacafe videos just try this new method.

    http://electromice.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-savedownload-youtube-and.html

  • steveking8/11/2008

    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.
    Product page: www.youtuberobot.com
    Direct download link: www.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
    web-site: www.youtuberobot.com
    E-mail: support@youtuberobot.com

  • mamdouh al mirabi - masster60@hotmail.com12/5/2007

    go to your Temporary Internet Files
    find a file named like this :

    get_video?video_id=xNDPGax9QAY

    with a link like this :

    http://sjc-v17.sjc.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=xNDPGax9QAY

    thin copy it to your desktop for example
    Rename it as you wish & but this in the last
    .flv

    for example ( my_video.flv )

    NOW YOU CAN PLAY IT WITH ANY flv support PLAYER
    I recommend VLC player

  • Numair8/11/2007

    it didnt work for me, got greasemonkey but there is no red bar :( need help

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