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March 16, 2007
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Want to download YouTube videos? Kiss them
Posted Mar. 16, ’07, 3:45 PM PT by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen
Category | Internet
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YouTube is great, of course. It’s the best way to waste your time on a cold Friday afternoon, watching clips of your favorite artist’s concert or facetious excerpts from a silly TV show.
However, sometimes you come across a video that’s worth keeping for later viewing. What to do? Do you see a little “Download” button somewhere? I don’t. You could use shareware like TubeSock, but if you’re cheap like me, you want to keep it free and most of all, Keep It Simple Stupid. That’s right, KISS. Kiss YouTube, and you can download any video.
Here’s the deal: while you’re on the video’s page, you simply add kiss before the youtube.com portion of the URL and you hit enter. That’ll take you to simple website where you can quickly download the .flv file. For example, this is the URL of the funny Gates vs. Jobs video after I added kiss to it: http://kissyoutube.com/watch?v=qHO8l-Bd1O4
You’ll need additional (free) software to play and convert the video, but apart from that caveat, kissing YouTube is pretty quick and useful. Give a little love.
Tags: Internet, video downloads, videos, YouTube
Comments
There was an article in Macworld that explained the power of the "activity" menu item in Safari and this is another advantage to it. You can go directly to the video and download it that way (I did that to the Gates vs Jobs video!) Alternatively, I also have a plug in for Firefox that will download any embedded movie on a website.
Posted by: Wes Good | March 16, 2007 5:50 PM
When you have SafariStand installed (free), all you need to do is command-click to save any flash movie. How is that for simple? :-D
Posted by: macsterdam | March 17, 2007 2:17 AM
Of course this breaks the TOS of YouTube in so many ways, I'm counting the minutes till they get a pretty sharply worded C&D from youtube.com... YouTube cannot possibly allow this to continue, especially in light of what they did to other websites like http://tinytube.net that offered the YouTube content independent of YouTube in a similar manner.
Posted by: Jacob Levy | March 17, 2007 1:03 PM
