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Frabato

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 267

good program to download from youtube

Hi All,

There are a dozen or so videos that I'd like to download from youtube. Does anyone have any recommendations for an easy to use, stable program?

Thanks

Varg

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2010-07-07

Posts: 272

Re: good program to download from youtube

Firefox + video downloadhelper addon usually does the trick
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/

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rulex

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From: Finland

Registered: 2009-05-20

Posts: 55

Re: good program to download from youtube

youtube-dl its in community

Skripka

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: good program to download from youtube

Do you want a local program, or are you fine with a website to provide it?

http://keepvid.com/

Ogion

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 367

Re: good program to download from youtube

Another one is youtube-downloader, in AUR. Works well for me.

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Dieter@be

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Registered: 2006-11-05

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Re: good program to download from youtube

I use rsget.pl, pretty cool tool

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xenofungus

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From: Spain

Registered: 2009-10-17

Posts: 63

Re: good program to download from youtube

I use cclive. It's in aur

Frabato

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 267

Re: good program to download from youtube

Hey thanks for all the replies. Well it's good to know that all of these programs must work pretty well or you wouldn't recommend them.
I'll give them a try.

Thanks

PirateJonno

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 372

Re: good program to download from youtube

If you use firefox (maybe other browsers), just wait for the video to load, then look for a file called FlashXXXXXXX in /tmp (the X's are just random garbage). It's an FLV file, which may not be what you get from dedicated downloaders

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kpbotbot

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From: Philippines

Registered: 2010-08-02

Posts: 93

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Re: good program to download from youtube

Firefox + video downloadhelper addon usually does the trick
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006/

+1 here. Plus, it's "site independent". As long as it can sniff videos/other media playing, it'll list it in its downloadable stuff for you to download

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Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

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Re: good program to download from youtube

[Get Flash Videos] ([get_flash_videos]) from the AUR.  It is a command-line program that can download the highest-quality-possible video streams from YouTube as well as many other video streaming websites, and also allows you to log in right there on the console if a video was content-flagged on particular a video-streaming service.  You can also download the subtitles/closed-captions along with video.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2010-09-05 05:30:45)

bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: good program to download from youtube

+1 for get_flash_videos.

I actually use the git version and update rather often as the list of supported sites constantly grows.

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kaptenen

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Registered: 2009-12-06

Posts: 287

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Re: good program to download from youtube

I´m using a script with greasemonkey to get rid of flash and also to download videos.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50771

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quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 497

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Re: good program to download from youtube

there are many packages
zenity-dl  -> downloading from youtube, with GUI (graphical user interface)
youtube-dl -> for terminal, CLI (command line interface)

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tlvince

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Registered: 2010-07-06

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Re: good program to download from youtube

You could also try ytmp.

Square

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 435

Re: good program to download from youtube

Personally, I use youtube-dl. It allows you to download formats other than flv, as well as autopick the highest quality.

That said, most of the time when you open a flash video a file in /tmp with the name FlashxXxXxX gets created (the Xs will be a combination of characters). If you wait for the video to load completely and then "$cp /tmp/Flash* ~", you can save the video without any sort of tool to assist you.

Works like a charm. You can also play these 'streaming' with mplayer by pointing it to that file.

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Last edited by Square (2010-09-06 02:41:22)

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tgblb

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Registered: 2010-03-22

Posts: 12

Re: good program to download from youtube

I personally like clipgrab. It's in AUR.