Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Youtube downloader for linux

There are many softwares/sites out there that can download videos from youtube and other similar sites. However, here is a much simpler trick which works on most linux distributions.

Whenever you play a video on youtube, the flash file is stored in /tmp as something like Flashxxx.

So if you want to save some video, simply watch the whole video on youtube and do " ls /tmp/Fla* "
The most recent video will most probably be the video you want.