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[UnrealMedia]

How would I go about making a youtube downloader?

Im not sure what to do to edit the URL of a submitted youtube video in order to download it.

Please help. Thank you

[N4Z.]

http://www.pixel2lif...ding/youtube/1/

[UnrealMedia]

[N4Z.]

My bad lol.

Can you be more specific, an example perhaps?

[UnrealMedia]

Doesn't matter lol

There must be thousands of Youtube downloaders out there. This one is probably best...

http://clipnabber.com/

[Hayden]

A quick, fast answer would require knowledge of the YouTube API.

The Youtube videos themselves are just flash media, so if you can find the direct link to that then you can pull the data into a file.

I followed steps somewhere after googling for something (interesting, the spell check knew what "googling" was) how to find the SWF file by just using Safari.

[Arctic Fire]

The YouTube API doesn't allow for downloading the videos in their regular format. I believe it will give you the link to the mobile (3pg) version, but not the .flv or .mp4 versions. To get a download link for those, you need to do a bit of page scraping. (looking for things in the html source code of the page)

I could write a tutorial for making one in PHP if you would still like one. (assuming I can find some time)

Edited by Arctic Fire, 25 October 2009 - 10:00 PM.