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22 09 2007

Download YouTube videos

Posted by: isiria, in IT general, resources

youtube_logo.jpgThere aren’t too many situations where I want to download low-res video clips from YouTube, but they do exist. My good mate Harry found a simple way of doing just that. He discovered KissYouTube, which makes it about as easy as it can possibly be. You simply take the YouTube URL and put “kiss” in front of “youtube” … like this one is http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=9fohXBj2UEI (no need checking out the video though - it’s a boring maths video and I was too lazy replacing the url ;) ).

You can download the video in its normal FLV (ie Flash Video) format or choose from most other video formats, including specific versions for various portable devices. Thanks buddy!

I just hope their online download is not down too often, as it was right now. Interestingly enough, they did offer a download tool for use in the meantime, supposedly tested on WinXP SP2 + IE7; I haven’t tried that one though.

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2 Responses to “Download YouTube videos”

  1. Bozo says:
    September 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Boring?! The infinitude of numbers is insufficient to express the magnitude of my indignation :-).

  2. Carsten says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    I tried to install the said download tool and wasn’t able to finish the installation process. It was disrupted by a ‘Path/File access error’ followed by the enigmatic ‘Runtime Error 75′.

    I imagine that the kiss site is down due to legal pressure from youtube’s new overlords - google. If everyone would just download the videos who would read the nice ads?

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