Jan 1, 2006, 3:52a - GreaseMonkey Video Download Script for YouTube.com

Browsing through Digg today, i came across a link that led me to YouTube.com - a similar service to Google Video.
Like Google Video, it is a site that showcases user uploaded videos. And like Google Video, it also makes use 
of an embedded flash based player and like Google Video (trend should be obvious by now) it also does not 
inherently allow for video downloads. 

Thats ok though. If you have the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox, just right-click and install the 
script (link to script somewhere below) and your YouTube view screens will then have a convenient 
download link for the displayed video. Just remember to rename the file and to give it an .flv extension.

You can play the .flv files using a err.. flv player. You can get a free one from 
http://www.martijndevisser.com/


// YouTube.com Video File (flv) Downloader
// version 1.0 
// Copyright (c) 2006, Ronald Lachenal
// Released under the GPL license
// http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
// Sun Jan  1 03:52:45 PHT 2006
// 
// ==UserScript==
// @name          Youtube.com Video Download 
// @description	  Download Flash Videos from YouTube.com to .FLV files
// @include       http://youtube.com/*
// ==/UserScript==


(function(){
	  URI = document.location;
	  VideoID = URI.toString().split("v=")[1].split("&")[0];
		DownloadLink = "http://youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=" + VideoID
	  if (VideoID != -1) { 
		  ContentBlock = document.getElementById("flashcontent");
		  ContentBlockParent = ContentBlock.parentNode;
		  
			NewDiv = document.createElement("div");
			ContentBlockParent.insertBefore(NewDiv, ContentBlock);
			NewDiv.innerHTML = "<div style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; padding-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\""+DownloadLink+"\">Download This Video (rename to .flv)</a></div>";
	 }
	}
)();


YouTube Video Download Greasemonkey Script Just right-click the link then select Install Script.


GreaseMonkey If you do not have Greasemonkey (you really should get it). Download from mozilla.org by clicking this link.




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