Another one of those ‘tutorial’ entries, today I’m gonna show you how to quickly and easily download those videos from YouTube. They’ll even copy straight to your iPod.
Alright - the hardest part of this tutorial - saving a bookmark (or favorite) to your address/bookmarks bar.
Easy - drag ‘
‘ to your Address bar (or right click and select ‘Add to Favorites’, ‘Add to Bookmarks’ or whatever it is for your browser).
The rest is easy - head to the video that you want. (I’ll use ‘You’ve Seen it all Before‘ for my example), and click that button (or open it in your favorites if that’s where you saved it). You should see a download link just under the ‘Embed’ code. Check the screenshot after the jump if you havent the faintest idea what I’m on about.
Then, just right click, and head to ‘Save File’ if you’re using IE, or ‘Download Linked File’ if you’re a Safari person.
And well, that’s it 
Oh, and also worth noting - these are higher quality files than the ones that you’d watch on YouTube, and they can be copied straight to your iPod with iTunes. No encoding crap needed!
Enjoy!
YouTube Page with the Download Link (just under the Embed code);
Right Clicking the Download Link in Safari;
Let’s download baby!
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2 Comments
Thanks Beau, but… it doesn’t work for me in either Safari or Firefox. Safari tells me I don’t have privileges, and Firefox downloads only to html. Am I doing something wrong?
Hey Side-car Sal,
That’s strange, though I have only confirmed it working with Safari.
Nothing happens with IE6, and not sure about IE7 or 8.
If firefox at leasts downloads it to HTML, have you tried to change the extension to .mp4 and see if QuickTime/etc will play it?
- Beau