download & save youtube videos

September 7th, 2006

that’s right kids, why save it as a favorite when you can DOWNLOAD the whole sweet thing? thanks to dredd for sharing this tip!

first, you got to have firefox. why? 1) because this tip only works with kickass firefox, 2) other browsers can just suck it. lol.

1. Install the Greasemonkey Extension for Firefox.

2. Right-click this .js file and select “Install User Script” (if you don’t see that option try step one again)

3. Now on every youtube video page there should be a red bar at the top, that says “Save As” to download Flash video.

4. Right click the text in the red bar, select “Save Link As,” and save the file as a .flv file. Firefox will rty to save it as “get_video.php,” you need to change the “.php” to “.flv,” and change the first part to whatever you prefer.

Now you need to either download a media player that runs .flv files, or download a program that converts them to other file types. Here are links to both:

FLV PLayers

FLV Player
VLC player - i recommend this!

FLV Converters

Riva FLV Encoder
Total Video Converter

that’s it! happy downloads galore! :D