How To Download Youtube Videos

Framp

May 26 2008, 02:01 PM

With this how to you'll find out how to download videos from youtube without using any software or website.

1. Retrieve the id video from the link (the code after ‘v=’)
example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI => muP9eH2p2PI
2. In your favourite browser go to http://youtube.com/v/{ID video}
example: http://youtube.com/v/muP9eH2p2PI
3. Link in the address bar will change. Replace ’swf/l.swf’ with ‘get_video’ and press Enter
4. Save your file

Here it's a little php code that will do this stuff

CODE

<?php
$idvideo = $_GET['link'];
$base = 'http://it.youtube.com';
$url_parsed = parse_url("$base/v/$idvideo");
$host = $url_parsed['host'];
$path = $url_parsed['path'];
$out = "HEAD $path HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $host\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
fwrite($fp, $out);

while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 8192);
if (preg_match('/Location/', $line)){
die("Link : $base".preg_replace(array('/^Location: /','/swf\/l\.swf/'), array('','get_video'), $line)."\n");
}
}
?>

Byez

encryptedwrath

May 31 2008, 08:42 PM

QUOTE(Framp @ May 26 2008, 03:01 PM)

Here it's a little php code that will do this stuff

CODE

Byez

Heh. Great little tip. Helped me a load! Thanks!

ivantoar

Jun 1 2008, 11:53 AM

Whoa thank you Framp, you've posted a nice trick! I'm tired using websites and programs to download these videos

Ancient Lewi

Jun 1 2008, 01:12 PM

THANK YOU SO MUCH, i been waiting over a year to find out howto do this!!!

seba1killer

Jun 1 2008, 06:17 PM

Thanks Framp, i think that will add YouTube downloader to my web, it looks easy.
Regards

undftdx

Jun 1 2008, 07:15 PM

wow i had no clue you could do that with the php code. those programs that convert the videos are not reliable.
Thanks for the tips!

mm22

Jun 2 2008, 04:18 AM

really simple and useful piece of code... any idea regarding privacy/policy/legal aspects of, say, putting such a service on your website?

leobrazer

Jun 2 2008, 03:40 PM

I am not good with codes and stuff, so for those who need a simpler way, go to www.keepvid.com, copy the video's url in the box provided and press download. After the download is complete, rename the file to [name].flv .

This site also helps you to download videos from some other video sites. There is also an FLV player you can download from here.

al-amakine

Jun 2 2008, 11:34 PM

thank youu so much

now i can download any video yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Aethix

Jun 2 2008, 11:51 PM

This is actually a pretty cool tip. I was using this program called "Gogago YouTube video player" that allows me to watch the youtube video and also download the files, but it was kinda bulky for what it did.

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shddgfgc

Sep 23 2008, 11:28 AM

The best and easiest way is to have firefox with an addon
fast video download 1.6.1
an icon will be seen on the bottom right aspect of the browser
once you go to the site to download the video then click on the icon immediately it starts download
u even can save it as .avi and .wmv
it can be obtained from mozilla website on addons page

travstatesmen

Sep 19 2008, 10:55 PM

The technology that the web is built on, using browsers that cache everything to the local computer before it can be viewed, opens up such possibilities. Just take a trip through your Temporary Internet Files folder some time, and you will see what I mean. As delivi said in post #20 of this thread, you can grab videos that have been streamed to your Temporary Internet Files folder by searching for the get_video files and renaming them, adding a .flv extension to them. This is not doing anything to the website. This is not a violation of the YouTube TOS. You are merely manipulating files that you have legitimately downloaded to your computer already. It is the underlying technology of the web itself that allows for this. Compare, for instance, the technical difference between reading a web page in a browser as opposed to viewing a Windows Terminal Services session or Citrix or WinVNC session. With thin-client computing, you don't have to download anything, as all processing is done on the server end, and the only thing that gets transmitted across the network is the mouse movements/clicks, and keystrokes from the client side, and the screen information from the server side. I wonder what the World Wide Web would look like if it was based on RDP or ICA protocols instead of HTTP. Obviously the web servers would need to be a lot beefier, but it is the only way that I can think of to prevent people from making use of files such as delivi explained.

Sorry, I tend to waffle sometimes. The bottom line is, you have the YouTube videos already on your local computer if you have streamed them fully, by watching them online. What you do with them then is up to you. Most people would either ignore them, as they don't even know that they are there, and then their computer dies one day because they never clean out their temp files. Either that or they have set their browser to automatically wipe clean the temp files every time the browser window is closed, trashing anything and everything in the cache. And then next time they want to view the same video, they connect to the YouTube site and download it all over again. What a waste of bandwidth!

minimcmonkey

Sep 19 2008, 10:06 PM

i think people should stop doing this. If this continues, more and more companies like the ones that are already sueing youtube, will take youtube to court.
And it would not be good if youtube had to be taken off the web, all these codes and programmes are a complete missuse of youtube, and are contributing to the illegal use of it.
PEOPLE STOP!!!!!!!

Framp

Jun 13 2008, 06:34 PM

QUOTE(mm22 @ Jun 2 2008, 04:18 AM)

really simple and useful piece of code... any idea regarding privacy/policy/legal aspects of, say, putting such a service on your website?

Ah, don't worry, use the code freely

iGuest

Jun 13 2008, 07:50 AM

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.

YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.

Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.

Product page: http://www.Youtuberobot.Com
Direct download link: http://www.Youtuberobot.Com/download/utuberobot.Exe
Company web-site: http://www.Youtuberobot.Com
E-mail: support att youtuberobot.Com

-reply by steveking

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How To Download Youtube Videos - without softwares or websites

How To Download Youtube Videos - without softwares or websites

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