Download YouTube videos to your desktop
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Here’s an easy way to download a YouTube video to your local hard drive. Use KeepVid! It’s a website AND a bookmarklet.
From YouTube, copy the link of the video you want to keep. It will look something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzi0maowYws
It is located just above the EMBED link to the right of the video. If you don’t see it, click the MORE INFO link to reveal it.
Now that you have the link in your clipboard, browse to KeepVid, where you can paste the link and download your video.
Of course, there is an easier way, thanks to the KeepVid bookmarklet. Put the bookmarklet in your toolbar, then when you are on a YouTube page and you want to save the video you’re watching, click the “Keep It!” link. You’ll get a list of videos from the page and links marked ‘Download.’
