Comments on: YouTube have blocked my download tool!

By: Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:22:01 +0000

abhay… I have also tried downloading the link you provided but had no luck… I have a feeling these movies are streamed rather than downloaded from a specific location.

Anyone else able to download the movie link?

Kieran

By: abhay

abhay — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:00:19 +0000

hi can anyone help me download videos actually movies on youtube posted by rajshri production.

i have tried many capture softwares but these videos are copyrighted

eg link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO-yHPtPU2I

anyone please try and inform me.

By: FiFtHeLeMeNt

FiFtHeLeMeNt — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:28:53 +0000

Seems recently most youtube downloaders have stopped working after youtube has disbaled get_video , I found a site which works , I hope you like it : http://www.youtubeto3gp.com/

By: Youtuber

Youtuber — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:33:24 +0000

Another option would be to use Easy Youtube Video Downloader

By: Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:58:55 +0000

Pjokk.. Thank you for posting up this very detailed tutorial… I will let you know how I get on with it… I’m sure it will be of great help to others…

By: Pjokk

Pjokk — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:57:43 +0000

Keepvid direct URL stopped working for me so I found an another way to get the direct url for independent streaming and an easy way to download via Mozilla Firefox. It looks comprehensive but it is very easy and fast when you get into it.

1. First install Clear Cache toolbar button, an addon that will be handy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1801
(Clearing Cache will make it easy to find your DL/direct entry in step 6)
2. Open Firefox.
4. Use clear cache button.
3. Paste video URL in address line to load and start your video. (Like this one http://youtube.com/watch?v=AkJf0md1kG8)
4. After it starts to play, type and enter: “about:cache” in the address line.
5. Under “Disk cache device” find “List Cache Entries” and click it.
6. Locate and click entry URL looking something like this: http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8&t=OEgsToPDskIUPp-t7WeWjZr5soxTNsT-
7. Among other points, you will find:

key: http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8&t=OEgsToPDskIUPp-t7WeWjZr5soxTNsT-

Click it to download flv

…and

To get direct URL, use:

Location: http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8&origin=dal-v141.dal.youtube.com&signature=6781F7B042F2AC2FB9534CB7AB9C54C178CF0226.4AE8DEB575183BDF629B0F08EA2C316F6B6DAB5D&ip=85.166.91.175&ipbits=16&expire=1203498182&key=1

…mark out direct URL and it will look like this:
http://dal-v141.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8
http://dal-v141.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=AkJf0md1kG8.flv

This one is a google video and is little more tricky because I had to replace “cache.googlevideo.com” with “dal-v141.dal.youtube.com”

Usally it looks like this:

Location: http://dal-v130.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gcn0f5s-aas&signature=3ECE1F8125952A3A55DC7306E14624D2DABB0393.753B222559E7A7AF194919D7F0943F0717A25441&ip=85.166.91.175&ipbits=16&expire=1203502796&key=1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
…and marks out:
http://dal-v130.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gcn0f5s-aas
http://dal-v130.dal.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=gcn0f5s-aas.flv

By: Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:40:16 +0000

Steve … thanks for the post… I suppose it was only time before YouTube changed their backend system to stop us writing scripts to downloads the videos… I believe Youtube are blocking the IP address of any script found that allows a user to download videos, I have done a test and found that my same scripts work fine on another server, I dont want to post a link to it as the YouTube police might track it’s location.

Yes Keepvid still works for now I spoke about it in my other post…
read it here >> How to get the direct url path to .flv video files on YouTube for Free

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:11:58 +0000

All in one video bookmarklet downloader has ceased downloading from youtube as well.. Other people have had similar issues with their youtube download programs also. It must be something new done by youtube to try and stop downloads. However, http://keepvid.com Still works fine though..

By: Kieran McCarthy

Kieran McCarthy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:35:44 +0000

Robert … thanks for the link… yes DownloadHelper is a handy plugin

By: robert

robert — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:19:45 +0000

Kieran,

I use a Firefox Plugin called DownloadHelper. Works for all kinds of media. Videos, images, etc.

It’s available on the mozilla addons site.