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.
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
March 7th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
doesnt work
March 15th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
it does work.. and its be reupdates
March 16th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
doesn’t work as of 3/16
June 4th, 2006 at 8:44 am
so how are you supposed to save it then? I insert the link, but it only gives me a script … that’s it :d
July 18th, 2006 at 12:18 am
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September 11th, 2006 at 4:42 am
just copy and paste the link to the tubetube video in the site and hit download!
September 17th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
mario: why use a site that is overloaded with ads?? i prefer http://www.ripzor.com/
March 11th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
YouTube videos can be easily ripped. And there are some interesting tools out there.
May 13th, 2007 at 4:50 am
YouTube downloader and Converter to AVI!!!
http://www.naevius.com/
February 1st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
naevius youtube converter…
Thanks. I gave a link of this letter in my blog….
March 12th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I have downloaded converter TuneCab, it has YouTube ripper, so I can convert YouTube video to all formats I want
http://www.tunecab.com