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MyTube = YouTube ripper!

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Seen a good video on YouTube or Google Video and want to store a copy of it locally? I found a nifty little tool that can do just that.

MyTube: YouTube Video Ripper

Basically you enter the YouTube or Google Video URL and the script returns you the direct URL of the video which you then can download. I tried using it for a couple videos and it works great. As suggested, I’d also recommend you download and use VLC Media Player to watch the files you saved because the video format is On2 VP6 which your typical Media Player won’t play unless you download a codec.

UPDATE 7/17/06: It seems as if MyTube is currently broken and is in the process of being fixed. I found another site called KeepVid. I just tried ripping a YouTube vid and it does work. Just paste the YouTube URL, click Download, and then once the page refreshes you’ll see a link which you right-click save.
For you Linux people, try this nifty bash script

Written by Rishi

March 4th, 2006 at 11:48 pm

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  1. doesnt work :(

    dave nash

    7 Mar 06 at 4:48 pm

  2. it does work.. and its be reupdates

    ben

    15 Mar 06 at 8:27 pm

  3. doesn’t work as of 3/16

    dorn

    16 Mar 06 at 2:49 pm

  4. so how are you supposed to save it then? I insert the link, but it only gives me a script … that’s it :d

    Snicky

    4 Jun 06 at 8:44 am

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    It’s Rishi » Its Rishi reaches 5 continents!

    18 Jul 06 at 12:18 am

  6. just copy and paste the link to the tubetube video in the site and hit download!

    mario

    11 Sep 06 at 4:42 am

  7. mario: why use a site that is overloaded with ads?? i prefer http://www.ripzor.com/

    steve

    17 Sep 06 at 1:09 pm

  8. YouTube videos can be easily ripped. And there are some interesting tools out there.

    Somu

    11 Mar 07 at 9:46 pm

  9. YouTube downloader and Converter to AVI!!!

    http://www.naevius.com/

    tcboy23

    13 May 07 at 4:50 am

  10. naevius youtube converter…

    Thanks. I gave a link of this letter in my blog….

    naevius youtube converter

    1 Feb 08 at 3:11 pm

  11. I have downloaded converter TuneCab, it has YouTube ripper, so I can convert YouTube video to all formats I want ;) http://www.tunecab.com

    JKarina

    12 Mar 08 at 6:28 am

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