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How to Download From YouTube

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How To Download From YouTube
How To Download From YouTube

YouTube is a very popular web site that allows you to watch homemade videos from around the world directly from your Internet browser. You may wish to know how to download from YouTube because there's almost any type of video that you could possibly ever want. Thankfully there is a way in which you can learn how to download from YouTube.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Computer
  • Internet
  1. Step 1

    Go to the YouTube video that you wish to download.

  2. Step 2

    Select “View Source” in Internet Explorer or “View Page Source” in FireFox.

  3. Step 3

    Press "CTRL + F" and search for "player2.swf" Here you will find a line of HTML that looks like this: /player2.swf?hl=en&video_id=tRTk0RPXtW4&l=63&t=OEgsToPDskIQlbZwT1Qgaln7RKqMqrKe

  4. Step 4

    Replace "/player2.swf" with "www.youtube.com/get_video" This will then become: www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=tRTk0RPXtW4&l=63&t=OEgsToPDskIQlbZwT1Qgaln7RKqMqrKe

  5. Step 5

    Copy this and place it in your browser's address bar and click enter.

  6. Step 6

    Now you will be prompted to save the video. Make sure that you save it with the extension .flv so that it will look like this: MyVideo.flv

Tips & Warnings
  • While this isn't difficult to do, you'll want to take your time working through these steps for the first time.

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