Do you like watching videos on
YouTube,
iFilm,
DailyMotion and other popular
video portals? Would you like to save them on your PC?
Simply copy and paste here the link of the video page and you will get a
direct link to download any video!
How to download a video from YouTube (and other supported video sites)
1) Enter the YouTube Video URL (if the video is embedded in another site and you don't know the URL, click "YouTube" on the lower right corner of the video window)
2) Click "Download"
3) Enter file name with the extention ".*flv" (e.g. myvideo.flv) and save
FLV player
All videos in Youtube and similar video portals are in FLV (Flash Video) format. You can't play these
videos in Windows Media Player or other popular players. You need to have a special FLV player. It can be downloaded for free (as freeware) from
here. There you will also find a freeware application to convert FLV files to popular video formats (mpeg, avi, mov...).
Alternate (manual) method
Go to YouTube.com and find a clip you like. Every
video page on YouTube has a little EMBED box that
allows you copy code and post YouTube video clips
on your website. We are going to take advantage
of this.
Copy the
code and paste it into a text edit program like Notepad . The code will look something like this:
<object width="425" height="350">
<param
name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oNQXLNMh0c"></param> <param
name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oNQXLNMh0c" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
You are looking
for the URL of the video file. In the example above
that would be: http://www.youtube.com/v/-oNQXLNMh0c.
Copy this URL and paste it into a new web browser window
and press the Enter key on your keyboard.
The YouTube clip should load
your web browser as a full screen clip. Press play and wait for the video
to load.
Now
take a closer look at the URL. It's different
than what you pasted in there. It's a lot longer right?
It should look something like this: http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=
-oNQXLNMh0c&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static5.sjl.youtube.com/vi/-oNQXLNMh0c/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJaNd08X90swYCiZMZTzBdb
The next step is to change the piece of code that
says "p.swf" to "get_video". So the example above should
look like this after the change: http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=-oNQXLNMh0c&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static5.sjl.youtube.com/vi/-oNQXLNMh0c/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJaNd08X90swYCiZMZTzBdb
Press Enter
and your video will start to download.
The tool installed on this page makes all these manipulations automatically.
Please note: we only provide a possibility to download videos from external portals. We don't
host any video on our server. You are responsible for any possible copyright violations. So please
do not download a file if you are not sure that this is legal.