Automate Online Video Downloading
Video sites are great for watching videos, however every once in a while you want to download videos you watch to your desktop, so that you can archive them and watch them locally.
There are 100s of tools that allow you to download videos from YouTube, Megavideo, Dailymotion, Hulu and other popular sites.
However most of the process with those freeware tools involve finding the link for the video, then pasting it in the application before the actual download begins.
A freeware tool called Yahoo Downloader, will automate the task of downloading videos for you from popular video sites.
The tool works with several browsers and also has a Firefox add-on that will help you automate downloads in Firefox.
Yahoo Downloader Features
- Easily download video from YouTube, Yahoo, Download imeem™, and more social video!
- Easily download music from Last.fm™, IMEEM™, Pandora™ and more social music!
- Download any social videos free!
- Download any social music free!
- Free, easy to operate!
- Super light, micro-sized and resource-friendly!
- Support all web browser like IE, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon, Avnta, Netscape!
Please note that Yahoo Downloader is not affiliated with Yahoo!.
Pallab
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:27 am #
While downloading from YouTube which version does it download? HD or the normal?
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:51 am
@Pallab It usually downloads FLV files so it’s mostly likely not going to be HD videos, that is what I think, haven’t downloaded any HD videos yet though to confirm
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Pallab
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 am #
Thnx for the info.
HD VIdeos are .mov. So yeah if it only downloads FLV it is downloading the low quality videos.
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Keith Dsouza Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 am
@Pallab HD videos are not .mov they can be anything including .avi .mpeg or anything, HD videos are high quality videos that play clearly on HD based systems, you might want to check this wikipedia article about HD videos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_video
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Pallab
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 am #
You misunderstood me. I know that HD videos can have any container (my fav is mkv). What I meant to say was that the HD videos in YouTube have a .mov format (they provide 3gp,flv,mp4 and mov formats). So, if the downloaded video from youtube isn’t .mov it isnt HD.
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