{"id":129,"date":"2007-10-05T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/download-flv-videos-from-youtube\/"},"modified":"2007-10-05T00:06:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T22:06:32","slug":"download-flv-videos-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/download-flv-videos-from-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"download flv videos from youtube"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife wants to keep some videos found on youtube<\/a>, and I really can’t recommend just keeping bookmarks to a random web site like that. Not if you want the content to be available in a few years ahead, or even ten or twenty years. Then downloading the files to keep the locally is the only sane way to make it somewhat more reliable.<\/p>\n

To download the files you can do it with a browser or with a command line tool:<\/p>\n

Browser Style<\/strong>\"Greasemonkey\"<\/p>\n

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  1. Use Firefox<\/li>\n
  2. Install Greasemonkey<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Within Greasemonkey there’s concept of user scripts that customize it, and we want a certain customization for youtube pages. So we get the YouTube to me v2<\/a> script installed.<\/li>\n
  4. Now, each youtube web page gets a red stripe on the top of the page that allows you to download the FLV.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Command Line Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

    There exist several command line tools “out there” that do the job. I tried youtube-dl<\/a> and it did the job splendidly by only proving the main HTTP URL on the command line.<\/p>\n

    The main lacking feature is that it names the output flv based on the ‘v’ variable in the URL so the downloads end up being named things like “f_8wuVEYMZ8.flv”…<\/p>\n

    Play the local FLV movies<\/strong><\/p>\n

    For this, I can only recommend the lovely VLC media player<\/a>, available on all modern platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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