Downloading Youtube Videos
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 10:49AM
Jose Perez in Tips, Web Apps
Ever wanted to download a video from Youtube? It's a great source for all sorts of material. Well, Youtube doesn't exactly give you an easy way to grab the videos.
There are several ways to accomplish this however. Here are my 2 favorite ways to go about it:
- Use Keepvid.com, Enter the URL of the video you wish to save, and click "download". You'll be offered a low quality FLV or a high quality MP4 file. Right click the "Save Link as" on the Option you would like, and you're done.
- This is the old school way of doing it. Open the Youtube video you want in your browser. Go up to the URL, and insert the word "kiss" before youtube. (ie. www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=....). You'll be taken to a download page to download the .FLV file. Once you download it, you can convert it to which ever format you prefer.
Article originally appeared on Jose Perez- 3D Artist and Tech Geek (http://www.fxstation.net/).
See website for complete article licensing information.