Comments on: Download YouTube Videos For Offline Viewing On Linux

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:28:00 +0000

not that I know of. If you planning to make a tool for this purpose, that would be excellent. Let us know about it :-)

By: Beef

Beef — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:32:45 +0000

All these tools are fine, but is there any way of downloading a whole channel or updating it with newly added content? I found many tools that handle separate videos or huge graphical things witch huge requirements, but no simple command line util.
I think, it should not be so hard to make, so if it does not exist, I am going to make it eventualy…

By: sradha sadu

sradha sadu — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:22:28 +0000

Here is a site that more use full than pwnyoutube.com download youtube videos on the fly,in any format http://youtubeddl.com dirict download from youtube server

By: ucef

ucef — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:34:06 +0000

hi
i actually use downloadhelper or fast video download, 2 firefox extentions .. but its good to know about that fancy command tool :p

my question is: is there a way to be able to watch the video online or offline but on youtube??
i mean can we make youtube, mozilla, or our pc somehow save the video we re watching, and next time we open mozilla (with connection “on”) we ll be able to watch the same video without the need of waiting??

(ps: my connection really sucks: 128 Kb/s; so is my english lol sorry for my bad eng)

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By: Derrick

Derrick — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:56:12 +0000

all you have to do is go to the /tmp directory after watching the video and you will see the downloaded video there waiting for you. It will have a randomly generated hash-like name, but nautilus will detect it as a video and thumbnail it. You just copy it where you like and rename it to ‘movie.flv’. This works for most basic flash viewing sites. The file is deleted when you change pages.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:34:46 +0000

@Bob: Like I said, I’m a Linux user and needed a tool which would work on Linux and youtube-dl worked for me.

I should have probably mentioned that youtube-dl is actually a python script and by virtue of that cross platform and work on windows and OS X also.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:08:36 +0000

Not sure why this was positioned as a Linux tool. I checked out the youtube-dl site and it mentions that it is platform independent and will work on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:34:43 +0000

I agree adamh. But, I needed a simple command line utility for my purpose. I’ll take a look at the firefox extension also.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:26:33 +0000

Or you can just add pwn to the beginning of “youtube” in the URL. Like this: http://www.PWNyoutube.com/watch?v=gZAnnvSOEmw

There’s nothing to install, its easy, and it works from any browser.

By: adamh

adamh — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:03:55 +0000

get this add-on for firefox: http://www.downloadhelper.net/

It is the thing you need.