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.

3 comments:

  1. Why don't you try and post stuff more often here?

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  2. Instead of waiting for the full length of video, one can use the plugin download helper for Mozilla!

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