Browser for Downloading YouTube Videos?

[alexora]

Originally Posted by PennyPurehart

You can and it's especially good with ones that have the padlock on them and can't be downloaded with Video Download Helper.



You can thumb down the arrow on the video size for different sizes on the vid (like 720p) as you can see you can also extract a m4a.

Thanks PP,

How does this actually work: does the user simply post the url link to a YouTube page containing the video in question, or is there a trick involved?

[FrostyQN]

No, you just copy the url for the youtube page and the linkgrabber for JD2 processes it,
and then it just downloads it like any other link. Myself I usually stick to 720p mp4's as anything larger is just silly, as my monitor is 1600x900.

You used to have to open up a separate sidebar to adjust the video codec/resolution and the arrow thumb down is quite a recent and excellent addition. Of course I have no idea if this is added in the JD2 for Macs or not.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by alexora

j
For downloading YouTube videos it is overkill, and I'm not even sure if jdownloader can actually do it.

Oh, yes, it does it, and does it very capably, with a lot of options-- eg "do you want to download the complete playlist" or just the video. It will also automatically detect the range of resolutions that that Youtube has.

There's also browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox, so you can initiate from there. I prefer it as standalone-- it watches your clipboard for links and will harvest all links from a page.

Makes it very easy to rip all the downloadable links from a thread, something that's a pain to do otherwise.

try this search

site:youtube.com autodesk maya

click on videos, then copy the URL and paste into Jdownloader (if it hasn't already caught it by watching the clipboard).

Nothing else is quite so adept at scooping up content.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by PennyPurehart

You can and it's especially good with ones that have the padlock on them and can't be downloaded with Video Download Helper.

Originally Posted by deepsepia

Oh, yes, it does it, and does it very capably, with a lot of options-- eg "do you want to download the complete playlist" or just the video. It will also automatically detect the range of resolutions that that Youtube has.

Thanks Guys: good to know that jDownloader can download YouTube videos.

However, the original question from the OP is about what browser to use to download YouTube videos, and jDownloader is not a browser and therefore cannot be used to search for files.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by alexora

However, the original question from the OP is about what browser to use to download YouTube videos, and jDownloader is not a browser and therefore cannot be used to search for files.

Just install the Jdownloader plugin into Chrome or Firefox . . . you search for files in Firefox, push them to JD.

Very powerful, particularly given automation capabilities in FF and Chrome.

JD does actually search for files on a webpage, internally it loads pages and parses them, looking for files.

Try this experiment from this site, the Phoenix Marie thread. Here's a list of the pages in it. Just copy and paste into JD, really, really powerful. Choose "Deep link analyze" -- meaning that JD will load each page and look for links.

You could generate this list with Javascript inside Firefox (I do it with a spreadsheet)

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[FrostyQN]

Originally Posted by alexora

jDownloader is not a browser and therefore cannot be used to search for files.

Those browser addons you suggested are not browsers either since you are being technical.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by PennyPurehart

Those browser addons you suggested are not browsers either since you are being technical.

Browser add-ons add functionality to web browsers: they are intended to allow users to pick and choose what their browser can do.

With download add-ons a user can search a video, and download it without having to launch another application.

In an earlier post, I illustrated how one add-on, once installed, allows users to download YouTube videos directly from the YouTube page in all available formats (including audio only).

This is the true meaning of "Browser for Downloading".

[FrostyQN]

Originally Posted by alexora

Translation: I only meant it to be technical for you. I however can justify it any way I want to because I'm always right about every single discussion I've ever had here and will keep droning on and on until you give up and get tired of hearing it.

[alexora]

Originally Posted by PennyPurehart

OK: time for a musical interlude...

You Tube

You Tube

[FrostyQN]

You Tube

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