Download Youtube, Google Videos and other Videos Free

As we all know Youtube has a very large database of videos that we watch online. Once I was asked by a friend of mine whether we can download the youtube videos for viewing it offline. There are many softwares out there using which you can easilydownload youtube videos.

In this post I am going to cover most of the methods to download free youtube videos.

Tips 1: Here is a simple trick to download youtube videos in any quality instantly by running a Java Script.

Download Regular Quality Youtube Video Direct Links [RQ]

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['video_id'] + "&l=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['l'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['t'];

Download High Quality Youtube Video Direct Links [HQ]

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['video_id'] + "&fmt=18&l=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['l'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['t'];

Download High Definition Youtube Videos Direct Links [HD]

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['video_id'] + "&fmt=22&l=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['l'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig('SWF_ARGS')['t'];

How to use the script or where to paste this java script?

1. Open any Youtube Video which you want to download.
2. Just copy the whole script (according to Quality Needed) and paste it on the address bar of the browser where the video is open.
3. Now Press Enter Key and Download of that yotube video will start instantly.

Note: If you watch many videos and want to download each of those videos, than you don’t need to always copy the above script. Just Drag them to your Bookmarks Toolbar or right click on the link and save as Bookmark.

Check Find high quality Youtube Videos post to learn an easy method of easilygetting good quality youtube videos

Tips 2:

This method shows a secret way of download youtube videos. Mostly when you watch videos online, these are stored in the Temporary folder.

You just need to find out what this folder is, where its located and you can copy that file onto any other location.

For Firefox browser: Look at for files with big size usually in xxxxkbs

C:\Documents and Settings\User_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx.default\Cache

For Internet Explorer: Look at for files with big size usually in xxxxkbs

C:\Documents and Settings\User_name\Local Settings\Temp

Tipss 3: Download Youtube Videos Using third party softwares

1. Install this best Firefox Plugin/extention Download Helper to download almost any videos like Youtube, Google videos, zshare, veoh, dailymotion, MySpace, Porkolt, iFilm and many others

Download download Helper

2. Using the new latest version of Internet Download Manager(IDM), you can download videos automatically from any websites. Check below screen

3. Download Youtube Downloader Software that is available for free. using this application you can also convert the downloaded youtube videos format from .flv to any other file format.

Download Youtube Downloader

If you have any other trick to download youtube videos, use the comments box below to add to this post, and make it the one stop search for downloading youtube videos.