Downloading You tube videos? [closed]

Answer 1

this site has something.. for your need!

http://mashable.com/2009/02/13/youtube-toolbox/

Answer 2

Look at the dosens of extension for Firefox about downloading Flash video's. Downloadhelper and Flash Video Helper. If you look in the source you will find how to download the video. From what i remember is that it parses the HTML page for an id and session and use that in an url to download the video.

Similar question found only in C#. Watch the sources and you can recreate it in java C#: Downloading video from YouTube

Answer 3

Youtube API allows you to search & list videos and obtain the mediaplayer URL, so that you can play videos within your web page

Youtube Data API

Youtube Java Data API - Search and List Videos

Youtube Java Data API - Getting Started

It does not allow you to download the byte content of videos - because Google is protecting their own rights and the rights of the content creators.

Google API Terms of Service
Prohibitions:

Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage or create functionality for Your users or other third parties to:
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• promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;
• access any portion of any YouTube audiovisual content by any means other than use of a YouTube player or other video player expressly authorized by YouTube;
• store copies of YouTube audiovisual content;
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