Download YouTube Videos

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

You can download YouTube videos to your hard disk at this site:

DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS

Here is another from TechCrunch:

YouTube Video Download Tool

These 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

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

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 Videos

by Stan Schroeder

The 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 based

1. videodownloadx.com

2. KeepVid

3. VideoDownloader

4. YouTube Downloads

5. Zamzar

6. YouTubia

7. VidGrab

8. Vixy

9. Hey! Watch

10. Media Converter

Media Converter

11. KcoolOnline

Windows Applications

12. VDownloader

13. YouTube Grabber

14. Orbit Downloader

15. My Video Downloader

16. KeepV (not free)

17. VideoGet

18. TubeSucker

OS X (Mac)

19. Get Tube

Linux

20. Youtube-dl

21. YouTube Ripper (script)

Plugins

22. Vidtaker (Firefox)

23. Ook? Video Ook! (Firefox)

There are even more out there.

Michael

[Mike11]

Sweet!

Thank you for making this list.