Michael Stuart Kelly Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 You can download YouTube videos to your hard disk at this site:DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOSHere is another from TechCrunch:YouTube Video Download ToolThese are very useful for archiving controversial videos before they get deleted. Also, if you decide to horse around with Movie Maker or iMovie, this is a great way to get topical content to splice into your mashup creation.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Stuart Kelly Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 Just in case something happens to those sites, here is an article from Mashable with a lot of links to a lot of resourses:Download YouTube Videosby Stan SchroederThe article gives a small explanation and some screenshots of the different programs, but for some reason it jams on my computer, so here is an abbreviated version:Luckily, there are literally dozens of tools for downloading videos from YouTube and/or converting those YouTube videos to some format other than .flv. It's hard to pick the best one, as they all have pluses and minuses. Thus, we've chosen 23 YouTube downloader tools we've found to be actually working. Here they are, categorized according to the platform they work on:Web based1. videodownloadx.com2. KeepVid3. VideoDownloader4. YouTube Downloads 5. Zamzar 6. YouTubia 7. VidGrab 8. Vixy 9. Hey! Watch 10. Media Converter Media Converter11. KcoolOnlineWindows Applications12. VDownloader 13. YouTube Grabber 14. Orbit Downloader 15. My Video Downloader16. KeepV (not free)17. VideoGet18. TubeSucker OS X (Mac)19. Get Tube Linux20. Youtube-dl21. YouTube Ripper (script)Plugins22. Vidtaker (Firefox) 23. Ook? Video Ook! (Firefox)There are even more out there.Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike11 Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Sweet!Thank you for making this list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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