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To download videos from YouTube I just have a button in my toolbar
with the following:

javascript:if(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)){document.location.href='http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt='+(isHDAvailable?'22':'18')+'&video_id='+swfArgs['video_id']+'&t='+swfArgs['t']}

It has always worked great for me, and as the download is done in
the browser you can have parallel downloads.

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dear fincs,
Try to download e.g. all Michael Jackson clips that does not contain the word 'concert'. This is what VidRipper does - not downloading 1 video.

Yeah, I know.

The scan page for links to videos feature is interesting, as you only have
to feed it one page and it will automatically download all the videos in
the page.

Keep up the hard work

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Not only that, but it will follow each link on the page (as if you'd click them all) and grab anything you want from those pages. And then all links on those pages too... You can ripp any click depth you want. It'd be a bit of finger-work with a browserbutton

its possible automatically bypass age verification? (logged in users)

If you can add this feature in the script i appreciate

thx

hi Im a youtube user and i am wondering if there a way to enter in a user's name like their youtube URL for their channel into the program thats being mentioned in this thread and this program would automatically find and download the videos? that would be a cool feature how about a setting so it downloads the &fmt=18 .mp4 files, and maybe a dimensions detecting thing so it downloads and maybe converts the video to the right format say a sony PSP b/c some of the .mp4 videos they are 480X360 and they wont work on the PSP but the 320X240 videos work and the widescreen 480X272 videos also work. I am asking this b/c one of my favorite youtubers is thinking of leaving and I really enjoy watching his videos and id like to download them all in mp4 so I can watch them whenever I want. I hope this makes sense b/c id really like to have all this user's videos on my PC. thanks for your help.

Yes, there is a way to do it:

1. Browse to your user's YT page, click "see all" in the "videos" box
2. Copy the URL - this is the URL of the user's video channel page.
3. Paste the URL into VidRipper LinkList
(it should look like this: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=blabla&view=videos
if it does NOT look like this - make it by hand: replace "blabla" in the above URL with your user's name)

If videos are less than 20 - you are done.

If videos are more than 20:
4. Activate "Follow Search Pages", choose "Custom", add
- this will ripp multiple search pages: 20 video on each page

Set up all other options in VidRipper as normal
You are done

I hope it helps. Enjoy.

VR seems to fail at certain pages that do not belong to youtube but still contain youtube's video embedded in them.

See for example
http://davydov.blogspot.com/2009/08/boy-interrupted.html
Sorry that blog is in russian - this is the one I am struggling with.

When I add this page to the link list it parses the html, finds the real URLs of youtube videos ( like http://www.youtube.com/v/8UhP40Gtri8&hl=ru&fs=1& ) but fails to retirieve the video itself saying:


This same URL is perfectly playable in browser but still cannot be downloaded by VR even if directly pasted to link list field.

The reason why i want to download from a blogpost instead of YT directly is because here I have all parts of the 1 hr video in one place without the hassle of searching all parts on YT.

Here's the code of the YT embedded movie player:


PS
I tried many of them : Tube++, TubeMaster++, Orbit Downloader, FDM - your utility is simply the best so far for on the road youtubing.
Thanks for sharing and for prompt support !

PS2
I just checked it out with Google Video - here i get pretty much the same result with
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8606550486520450917&hl=ru&fs=true
Playable in browser - not seen by VR.
BTW, my File extension list is: .wmv,.mpg,.avi,.mov,.flv,.mp4,.swf
Everything else is default

Thanks for the report.

Current version 6.0.0.2 solves this issue.

Background:
The type of URL you mentioned links to the native flash object (the player) and therefore no html code to ripp from. The solution is to convert the url into the "normal" watch?v=... type of url and do the ripping there.

I hope it works fine - I've tested with your supplied URL.

EDIT:
And version 6.0.0.3 solves the YT title issue with unicode characters, and promotes YT object download depth, so that you dont need to increase click depth to download these new YT objects.

EDIT2:
And ver 6.0.0.4 solves unicode characters in YT search links. A parameter uni=1 had to be added to the link and the search word had to be urlencoded manually.

fures

Thanks for the fix - now everything works flawlessly!

I want to ask you to reconsider the default file naming pattern which is
like
[timestamp] video_title . flv

Then again, it doesn't work so well with multi-part videos i usually watch because when video player or total commander sort them "by name" they mix all the parts almost randomly. This way I cannot just do "File \ Open Directory" from my player and must create a playlist manually.

Just changing the naming pattern to something like
video_title . [timestamp] .flv
would solve the problem.

Thanks in advance !

@valenock
Its done.
I've included a dropdownlist to select naming convention.
You can make your choice (the 2nd) and save as default.
I hope it works well - just tested lightly.

Hi,

Love the script!!!

I would like to report a problem I have run into. I have been using the script for several months with no problems (other than I never got it to work on my wife's laptop running vista) until I tried to download a series of youtube videos to show my kids about Akido. They start to download but never do and they create files of 0 size I cannot delete form the folder.

Here are some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtfnqy3 ... ature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv8H9zlZ ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWxYb6-Q ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRNpNnflShg&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCQAN0Rb ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIGh2Y-2 ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvoDb9lS ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0uuaS_X ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QwNKF3i ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZRuzsDO ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDU-5O6 ... re=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auw3aiOc ... re=channel

Thanks!!

Wonderful program. Had it running for a few hours last night and downloaded quite a few videos. I had a question concerning the .exe though. When I start the program the .exe disappears and the program loads (works just fine). When I close the program there is still no .exe file in the directory I ran it in. I've resorted to keeping a copy of the file in a zip archive and simply copy over the exe each time to run it. Should this be occurring? Am I missing something such as using another file to load the main program? Or is this the correct way it should be running?

Also, in all the awesomeness of downloading, I tried my hand at downloading all .gif,.jpg,.jpeg files from a few websites. The ability to do so is wonderful but i've noticed most of these files pull small to tiny graphics and buttons which are not needed. I am wondering if an option can be added to tell VR not to download a file if it is smaller then x and/or larger then x. The smaller then x amount to apply mainly towards small images and the larger then x amount to avoid massive videos.

The second option may present an issue with YouTube videos if a HD video is found and it is over the size limit set. But adding this feature should be possible by checking the size property of the file. I am unsure if this may slow the program down more if it needs to do a size check on each qualifying file. This option would optimize searches by a huge degree. Especially wallpaper searches.

This tool is insane in its usefulness. Thank you for posting it for all to use.

Is it possible to add rtmpdump so you can use the program to any
web site?
http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/
http://download3.videohelp.com/rtmpdump-2.3-windows.zip
The current version just download flv files as I understood

After downloading the .exe file, I tried to download some videos from youtube.

No matter what kind of urls I used, all I got are "No file-extension found in html content."

I didn't modify file-extension list. I use default file-extension setting like ".wmv,.mpg,.avi,.mov,.flv,.mp4"

I download the ripper today. Anyone knows where it is going wrong?

Thanks