Saving Youtube videos to your hard drive
Posted: 16 Feb 2007, 15:10
A few peole have asked about this, so here's how you do it.
Go to youtube
Select the video you want
Copy the url - it will be something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKC3qq8ZYaw
Go to this page and paste in the url
http://keepvid.com/
Click Download
The page will then be refreshed and you will see another box entitled Download. Click on Download Link
When it comes up with the Save Box, point it to your desktop and call the download file something like snooker.flv (rather than just the name get_video which it always defaults to.) It doesn't matter what you call it as long as you give it the .flv suffix.
Then download the free flv player which is linked to from the keepvid page.
I have just tested these instructions successfully.
Post any questions here and I will try to help you resolve them.
Go to youtube
Select the video you want
Copy the url - it will be something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKC3qq8ZYaw
Go to this page and paste in the url
http://keepvid.com/
Click Download
The page will then be refreshed and you will see another box entitled Download. Click on Download Link
When it comes up with the Save Box, point it to your desktop and call the download file something like snooker.flv (rather than just the name get_video which it always defaults to.) It doesn't matter what you call it as long as you give it the .flv suffix.
Then download the free flv player which is linked to from the keepvid page.
I have just tested these instructions successfully.
Post any questions here and I will try to help you resolve them.
