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I use youtube-dl for downloading videos from YouTube. It's a free console program (public domain licence), written in Python. I've used it on Windows and Linux and it worked well. (According to the official site it should work on Mac OS X too.)
By default it downloads the video in the best quality provided by YouTube. If it's not playable with VLC you can ...
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JDownloader works great:
freeware
ads-free (make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing JDownloader)
standalone
works with Windows/Linux/Mac
automatic acknowledgement if some video triggers "18+ years only" warning.
ability to download batches (GUI that accepts a list of URLs)
can download all video playlists
can be configured to download all ...
answered Mar 6 '14 at 16:01
Franck Dernoncourt
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Two recommendations:
1.DVDSOFT (Stand alone):
Their free apps work as modules where you can choose which feature to download & install, they have a full studio program which works as (audio video dvd converter for mobile and iphone devices and video downloader)
As for DVDSOFT youtube downloader module, all what you have to do is to copy the video link, ...
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I use youtude-dl for downloading videos from YouTube. It's a console program (without any ads), written in Python. I've used it on Windows and Linux (it worked well) and according to the official site it should work on Mac OS X too.
It also supports extracting audio. You can set the format too, for example:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 "...
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The default VLC media player should be able to play and record YouTube videos by itself. The steps are as follows:
Go to Views > Advanced Controls
Go to Media > Open Network Stream
Put the YouTube video URL in the box
It should stream. To record, just click on the record button on the
bottom left corner
Recorded videos should be available in your ...
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If you use VLC there is an easy way for such conversion.
To convert Youtube video to mp3 these are required steps:
Start up VLC Media tab chose Open Network Stream & in new pop up screen add URL address of youtube video you want to convert.
From Play drop down menu chose convert (keyboard shortcut is Alt+C
In new screen make sure to fill in needed ...
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Youtube Center is one of the best as it integrates perfectly into the site and gives you a lot of other options to customize your viewing experience. It appends an extra set of options to each video including a download button, you can even only request audio.
It's available for all major browsers as extensions or if you can install it via a userscript.
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You can use youtube-dl. It is command line tool. I tried this at only on Windows7. There is a GUI wrapper available called win-youtube-dl but it only works at 64-bit Windows.
Open source
Supports a lot of video sharing sites
Can download subtitle of video
Free
Multiplatform
Supports authentication
Works with proxy (I never tried this)
Can download ...
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The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
This works also for audio and picture galleries.
Video DownloadHelper :: Add-ons for Firefox
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youtube-dl is open-source with no potentially unwanted software, available in several repositories, and sports all of your requested features – minus the GUI.
$ youtube-dl -F e4MSN6IImpI
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] e4MSN6IImpI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] e4MSN6IImpI: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] e4MSN6IImpI: Extracting video ...
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JDownloader works great:
freeware
ads-free (make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing JDownloader)
works with Linux/Windows/Mac
ability to download batches (GUI that accepts a list of URLs)
can download video playlists
option to download the video in various formats and qualities
can be configured to download all downloadable URLs in clipboard
...
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I use the Fast Video Download for Firefox. If you come on a site that displays a video the icon starts flashing and you can select the video to be downloaded (in all its formats). Then you get a "Save As" dialog where you select the place it should go to.
It uses the name of the videofile per default which may not be what you want so you have to insert the ...
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You can use DVDVideoSoft's Free YouTube Download:
freeware
ads-free (make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing)
standalone
works with Windows
can download YouTube playlists (largest playlists size tried: 182 videos)
It seems to work fine with non-ASCII characters, example:
Make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing:
Options:
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JDownloader used to work great (free, ads-free, Windows). Right now there is a bug that makes the mp3 download unavailable, but hopefully it should be fixed soon.
answered Feb 25 '14 at 17:04
Franck Dernoncourt
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aTube catcher
I always use it to download videos from youtube but if you a day would need it for another video from another site it works.
Allows you to use differents format and have various functions.
You can search for videos directly from the application
I never had problems with this and works always.
From site:
More stable, reliable, and faster!
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SMPlayer has got a GUI tool (smtube) to enable YouTube downloading.
Format saved - MPEG4, playable by any half-decent player, including VLC. Also FLV and WEBM.
Video and audio - YES.
Freeware - YES.
Adult video triggers - NOT TESTED.
Batch downloading - NO. The workflow centers on searching for videos in the YouTube Browser and then downloading them. The ...
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You can use JDownloader:
freeware
ads-free (make sure you uncheck/skip the spyware when installing JDownloader)
standalone
works with Windows/Linux/Mac
can download YouTube playlists if it contains fewer than 80 videos
tons of other features like custom proxy configuration within application with authentication.
answered Sep 21 '14 at 13:35
Franck Dernoncourt
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You can use a userscript. Userscripts are small JavaScript scripts that run in your browser. They allow you to customize sites and edit their design or even add functionality, and they can be as easy or as hard as you want them to be!
I've made a simple userscript that will move the video so that the controls can still be accessed, but the video can't ...
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I don't give you a standalone application, but the alternative one is web application. ClipConverter CC is allowing you to convert and download your Youtube video in the version what you like.
I hadn't tried it before using proxy services on my school. But, I hope it will work.
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KeepVid is a web application that is great for garbing videos from the web.
Features:
Can download videos in all popular formats
Even saves only the audio from the video if that's what you want
Totally Free of cost
Notifies the user if the videos are tagged "18+"
Because it is on the web it is not platform specific.
No Advertisements
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I can't believe no one suggested 4K Download.
the pros this beside other software is it able to save 60FPS video, smart tracking like JDownloader.
Have some ads but not intrusive at all.
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Freemake offer a Youtube converter to many different formats including mp3. Whilst I have never used it, I can vouch for their products as I have used both their Video Converter & Video Downloader with great success. Its a free download with no registration required.
Screenshot:
Platforms: Windows XP/Vista/7/8
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Today I've tried the free studio from dvd video soft for youtubeToMp3 and it was quite easy and straight forward.
Their app work as modules where you can choose which feature to download & install, they have a full studio program which works as (audio video DVD converter for mobile and iPhone devices)
Free studio screenshot:
As for the youtube to mp3,...
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mps-youtube is a console-based youtube player with playlist support. Doesn't display video, great for listening to music. It supports downloading media from youtube (although youtube-dl is much more full-featured regarding downloads).
You may also have a look at minitube which is a standalone (graphical) youtube player tring to match a TV-like experience.
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Play/Pause is a minimalistic Firefox extension that just adds a Play/Pause button to YouTube video tabs.
License: MIT
Source code: https://github.com/DanielKamkha/PlayPauseFirefox
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I recommend SnipMP3.
It is a web-app rather than a desktop program. It also (last I tried anyways) didn't properly load on Firefox although it used to so that could have just been a security mixup or something (or due to me using an alpha Firefox - may investigate if I get some time later). Just tested with Chrome on Win 7 and it works fine there.
It does ...
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There is a free web browser history examiner utility which could be used to generate the information that you need, it is available here.
Since it can export the information to a number of formats it should let you generate the view counts periodically - N.B. Internet Explorer is notorious for giving inflated counts of the number of visits.
To quote the web ...
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SVPtube − plays Youtube videos in your favorite media player or saves to hard drive. Freeware.
Supports most available formats (as seen in the browser's official flash player), 3D, 2k and 4k resolution.
To download video you need to select a custom player by right-clicking the tray icon, switch .exe filter to .wsf and select the svptube-dl.wsf file ...
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Well, I'm not entirely sure you can do this but you can always download the videos in audio format.
Fetchaudio is a good website. It is quite simple to use and you can download YouTube videos in audio only online which is pretty good. Another service you could use is keepvid.com. You can also download YouTube videos in audio format.
I used them quite ...
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Magic Actions for YouTube can:
AutoHD feature - start play all YouTube™ videos in HD
+ Highres > HD1440p > HD1080p > HD720p > 480p > 360p > 240p > 144p
and a lot more.
What chrome looks like with the extension enabled and a fixed size selected on my system:
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