How to download video from YouTube

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Ever wanted to use a video from YouTube? This article will teach you how to download video from YouTube and convert it into file formats you can use on your phone or portable media player. You don't need to download ANY software

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • An internet connection
Step1
1. Go to YouTube and get find the movie you want
Step2
2. Right click on a blank bit of the screen
Step3
3. Click view page source
Step4
4. Type Ctrl+F
Step5
5. Search for player2.swf
Step6
6. You should get something that looks like this ->
Step7
7. Select all the text after video_id= and before the speech mark, this text has been highlighted in the image
Step8
8. Go to www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=
Step9
9. Paste the text after video_id=
Step10
10. Click enter
Step11
11. Save the file to your desktop (you may need to click file in the top left of the page then click save page as)
Step12
12. Go to http://media-convert.com
Step13
13. Click the “browse” button next to the white box
Step14
14. Select the file you just got from youtube (usually called get_video)
Step15
15. On the drop down box to the right scroll to the bottom and select “flash video .flv”
Step16
16. Scroll down the page until you see
Step17
17. If you are putting this on your phone go to step 18, if you just want to watch it on your PC go to step 21
Step18
18. Does your phone or mobile device play .3gp movies? If yes go to step 19, if no go to step 20 (if you don’t know assume that it can play .3gp movies)
Step19
19. It should say .3gp in the drop down box, if it doesn’t select .3gp from the drop down menu, go to step 22
Step20
20. Select .mp4 from the drop down menu (there are many types of mp4 in the menu, if you have a PSP select PSP .mp4, if you have a Ipod video select Ipod video .mp4, if it is another type of movie player like a phone select mpeg-4 .mp4) Go to step 22
Step21
21. Select Motion Picture Experts Group .mpg from the dropdown menu, go to step 22
Step22
22. Click I accept the terms
Step23
23. Click Convert
Step24
24. Wait until you see this screen (it may take a long time if the movie is long)
Step25
25. Click download and save it to your desktop
Step26
26. Put it on your phone, Ipod, PSP or watch it on your computer
Step27
27. This is a very complicated process; if it doesn’t work then it probably will never work.

Tips & Warnings

  • Some times the audio is out of time with the video, if this happens try using different file formats
  • Never download anything from the internet unless you are sure it is safe

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falconrs

falconrs said

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on 10/7/2008 other way to download videos from youtube and metacafe is in this link

http://www.freefileconvert.com

you also can convert files format, is a very usefull site that helped me

falconrs

falconrs said

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on 10/7/2008 other way to download videos from youtube and metacafe is in this link

http://www.freefileconvert.com

you also can convert files format, is a very usefull site that helped me

steveking

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on 7/21/2008 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.

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.

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Direct download link: ww w.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
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steveking

steveking said

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on 7/21/2008 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.

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

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