# Download Your Favorite YouTube Videos!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-your-favorite-youtube-videos/376759>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-your-favorite-youtube-videos/376759 "2006-10-17T09:38:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-your-favorite-youtube-videos/376759/1 "2006-10-17T09:38:09Z")

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[Provided, of course, you’ve got a Mac.](http://djodjodesign.free.fr/rightEN.html) 😛 Haven’t had a chance to try this out yet, but I’ve heard good things about it. Of course, only do this with videos that aren’t impacted by copyright laws. [Like this video of the Tucker I shot.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQjouZ9Hfcs)

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**Author:** ![Aunt\_Flow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Aunt\_Flow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aunt_Flow)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-your-favorite-youtube-videos/376759/2 "2006-10-17T09:41:34Z")

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There’s a nifty Firefox plugin called VideoDownloader you can get that’ll download any video you find on a site, be it YouTube or Google or whatever 🙂 Works on a PC too.

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**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-your-favorite-youtube-videos/376759/3 "2006-10-17T11:39:32Z")

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Maybe a tiny bit offtopic, but does anyone know of any similar tool for macromedia flash files?

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**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/download-your-favorite-youtube-videos/376759/4 "2006-10-17T13:06:26Z")

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Unfortunately all of the vids on YouTube are in Flash Video format (FLV). You’ll need to convert them if you want to play them anywhere but in a browser window or Flash video player.

There are several FireFox plugins that can download off of YouTube.