I wanted to take a look at some YouTube videos, but with my unstable 3G connection the streaming doesn’t perform quite well. So I have tried to download them with the VideoDownload Firefox extension that I had already used on some other ocasions, but this time it hasn’t worked. YouTube must have change something and this extension, that hasn’t been updated since last year, doesn’t work any more. Well, this is what Google is for. ;)
After trying with 2 or 3 different extensions, I’ve found this page with a “bookmarklet” to download videos from several streaming services (not only YouTube) and a Greasemonkey stript which detects if the current page is supported and has a streaming video, and displays a link to download it. Very easy to use and convenient. :)
The only drawback: it seems that YouTube has some kind of anti-deep-linking method in place, and the download fails unless you do it directly with Firefox. It won’t work with any download manager, not even DownThemAll!, that beeing a Firefox extension I though would be able to handle the cookies/referer/whatever YouTube uses to prevent the downloads. Well, nobody’s perfect.
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