How to rip videos from Youtube
How to rip videos from Youtube
ghost | 6783 Reads | This is my first article, I hope you find it useful.
Some of you may know how to do this already, it's just a quick tutorial that describes how to rip videos from Youtube to your desktop.
Firstly, go on to www.youtube.com and select the video you wish to download. Notice that next to it there is a "URL" bar, and an "embed" bar. The content inside the "embed" bar is most important to us.
Open a text editor and copy and paste the content of the "embed" bar into it, as this makes it easier to read. Find the url address in it and paste it into a new internet browser window or tab. It should look something like this: "http://www.youtube.com/v/iQCbgjbrA_M".
When the screen loads the video should fit the whole screen and the url will have changed to something like this: "http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=iQCbgjbrA_M&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjc-static6.sjc.youtube.com/vi/iQCbgjbrA_M/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJbNLkODGWrLrTtMkB3IUNU"
Change the "p.swf" part to "get_video" once the video has fully loaded. A popup will indicate a file download and the file will be downloaded to ur desktop, (or wherever you requested) in flv format.
Chances are your media player will ont be able to play this, so can download a free video converter, and convert it to whatever file format you want. Hope you find this useful.
(If you cannot find a suitable converter I suggest using an Imtoo video converter, to get one simply type "imtoo video converter" or something similar into google.)
Happy hacking :D
ghost 17 years ago
why go to all that trouble when there is the Video Downloader extension for firefox? o well a good rating for effort
ghost 17 years ago
yeah i agree there is a video downloader. it does all that for you.
best convertor i would use is PSP Video 9. it converts it to mp4 so you can put it on your ipod or psp.
ghost 17 years ago
You can also use Audacity to record it straight as it plays then save it as a mp3, good effort though.:D
SySTeM 17 years ago
Uhm, how old is the guy who wrote this? "chances r ur media player will nt b able to play this, so download a free video converter, and convert it 2 woteva file format u want." Jesus, my dog could probably spell better than you…
ghost 17 years ago
I was about to say the same thing. Great article let down with the same interlect regarding English Language as the dog piss on the lampost.
ghost 17 years ago
So? Even if a video downloader does do it, its quicker to do this if u need a vid on a different computer
besides, hu wants to always do it the easy way? be adventurous people.
gd job man
ghost 17 years ago
I kind of like this. It worked, that's what counts. And maybe his English is.. questionable, I understood just fine what he wrote.
ghost 17 years ago
lolololol agree with u entirely spyware, however, just tried it for myself and it does kinda long it. plus, u can't watch the videos without converting them (oh but i tried) which is not what i was expecting despite it saying that clearly above. i dunno. i guess theres no harm in knowing different ways of doing the same thing i guess. :ninja:
ghost 17 years ago
And there is a flv-player: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated
ghost 17 years ago
yea i just dont see how the hell someone authorized this without even caring to try correcting the guys spelling. Has the requirements of article submissions gone down or something?
ghost 16 years ago
hello first i would like to compliment you on your article because this seems like a very usefull technique.
however, when i tried it myself, after i copy the embedded url to the address bar, there is no 'p.swf' in the url, but there is a 'l.swf' instead. when i replace that with 'get_video', it doesn't work.
any suggestions are appreciated thanks
ghost 16 years ago
hello first i would like to compliment you on your article because this seems like a very usefull technique.
however, when i tried it myself, after i copy the embedded url to the address bar, there is no 'p.swf' in the url, but there is a 'l.swf' instead. when i replace that with 'get_video', it doesn't work.
any suggestions are appreciated thanks
ghost 15 years ago
ya i got the same thing 'l.swf' , But as everyone has been saying there is easier ways of doing it so i really dont care enough to figure this problem out , nice articale though , you put some thought into it , just to bad it dosn't work
ghost 12 years ago
ZzzZZzz use downloadhelper for firefox or Type Kick in front of youtube … like this www.kickyoutube.com/somefuckingclip… :ninja: :vamp: :evil: :o :matey: