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How to download a Youtube video?
By Mark A. McCutcheon April 7, 2012 - 1:40pm Comments (2)
Anybody care to suggest a good reliable way to download a Youtube video? This used to be relatively straightforward - Mashable's review of apps for this (from 2009) suggests some had already been around a while before then. But between newer browsers and the Mac Java malware scare, I'm having trouble finding a way to pull an FLV file out of the cloud to my desktop.
Any and all suggestions welcome.
(And yes, it's for legitimate research purposes, naturally.)
Mark A. McCutcheon
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U
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It's been awhile since I used Firefox, but Flashgot was once a very useful extension for downloading Youtube videos: http://flashgot.net/. There's relatively-recent instructions here. If you're using Chrome, this looks like a similar extension, and the reviews seem to be positive.
Oh. I just parsed the bit about using a Mac. Maybe this is not so helpful.
@terrya: I tried Keepvid but it really doesn't want to work in Chrome on my Mac.
So I went with this, very like the Chrome extension Sarah suggests, but housed in the Chrome webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aklcfcaipkcjkbclpomlfnnpjacdjlnh?hl=en-US
It's working out well.
Thanks for the tips, everyone!