Using get_video on YouTube to download a video

Question

I am trying to get the video URL of any YouTube video like this:

Open

http://youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEOID

then take the

Answer 1

I use this and it rocks: http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

Just copy a YouTube URL from your browser and execute this command with the YouTube URL as the only argument. It will figure out how to find the best quality video and download it for you.