How to Download Flash Files From YouTube
YouTube itself offers no way to download videos: but doing so is, nevertheless, possible. Using the free services of another website, you can download YouTube's flash video files to your hard drive --- whether you merely intend to keep them for posterity, or else view them later while on safari, far from an Internet connection.
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Instructions
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Open your web browser, and open the YouTube video of your choice. Highlight and copy (Ctrl-C) the URL of the page, found at the top of your browser window.
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Go to Javimoya's Video Downloader website (see link under References), and paste (Ctrl-V) the URL into the text field at the top of the page. Select "YouTube" from the dropdown list of websites, and click "Download". Click the top download link that appears, to download the file.
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Open the directory you saved the video to in your file manager, and make sure it has the file extension ".flv". If it doesn't, change it.
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