Easiest way to download YouTube videos
By Bionicman
@Bionicman (3958)
Czech Republic
September 1, 2012 4:21pm CST
Get "DownloadHelper" addon for Firefox and you'll be able to download a video from YouTube and other sites in a few seconds. It's much better than say Flashgot because it'll download videos as MP4 (or possibly other formats you choose) instead of flv. Also there's no annoying converting (but it has that option for other formats), you can download it in 30 seconds and play it right away. I wish I knew about this addon before. It might be helpful to you too, that's why I'm posting this.
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4 responses
@MIMO_Rulz_111 (2074)
• India
6 Sep 12
I'd always used FlashGot, in fact still using. I think I'll try DownloadHelper once after reading this. Is it capable of downloading any media in a webpage from any site like FlshGot? For example, the chat pop up sound of Facebook (FlashGot can do it).
@Bionicman (3958)
• Czech Republic
6 Sep 12
I like flashgot but it saves in .flv and then I have to convert it and it takes a long time.
@MIMO_Rulz_111 (2074)
• India
16 Oct 12
Right. For the purpose of extracting the sound .flv is not useful.
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
20 Nov 12
The most easiest way is youtube downloader for download youtube video. I heard first time this name downloadhelper. But I will check it thanks for sharing.
@skydancer (2101)
• United States
2 Sep 12
I will definitely make a note of this for the next time I see a YouTube video or audio I'd like to download for personal use/enjoyment. I was using Zamzar for the longest time until the other week when I headed over there to download something from YouTube only to find out that they had since been prohibited from allowing downloads of YouTube videos (for legal reasons, I presume).
Time will only tell if Download Helper falls to the same fate, but for now, it sounds like a good tool - probably would be helpful even without YouTube capabilities.
@mutchy126 (317)
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11 Nov 12
Have you tried "KeepVid". I have used it many times before with perfect results, no software needed.
