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Q: How to download youtube video in Mp4 format from safari ?

Does anybody knows how to put link and when video plays just click on it and it will download. I had that option a while ago and cant find the way to make it again. Or if you know any other way....

imac, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Sep 8, 2010 12:22 PM

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Q: How to download youtube video in Mp4 format from safari ?

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  • by Carolyn Samit,

    Carolyn Samit Carolyn Samit Sep 8, 2010 12:52 PM in response to Tigor
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    Sep 8, 2010 12:52 PM in response to Tigor
    HI,

    Try right or control clicking the link.





    Carolyn
  • by James Mol,

    James Mol James Mol Nov 13, 2010 5:41 PM in response to Tigor
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    Nov 13, 2010 5:41 PM in response to Tigor
    Using Safari 5.0.1 and Snow Leopard I used part of what I found online and stumbled across the final solution indicated by brackets {}
    From <http://mac-dvd.com/mac-guide/how-to-download-youtube-video-on-mac-for-free.htm l>
    Step 1: Download the videos
    1. Find your favorite YouTube video. This step is pretty self explanatory. Be sure to use Safari and search for your favorite YouTube Video. {Select 720 p or greater.}

    2. Next, you need to go to 'Window' and down to Activity. Click on 'Activity' to bring up the next dialog box.

    3. Once the dialog box has popped up you need to look for the YouTube page among all the page titles and files listed in the window.

    4. Once you locate it and expand all the activities going on in the page, look for the largest file size (this is shown in the right hand side). Most of the files found in a YouTube page are small files while most FLV files are several megabytes.

    Once you locate the largest file,
    What I found out:
    {Hold down the SHIFT OPTION key and double click on it. The video should start downloading in your download and be named videoplayback.mp4.}

    What I found out in the videos I tested is that if you did not use 720p or higher, SHIFT OPTION double clicking or just double clicking on the large file in the activity window downloaded an FLV file, which you then have to convert to mp4.

    Hope this helps.

    Message was edited by: James Mol
  • by hw6063,

    hw6063 hw6063 Nov 16, 2010 5:03 PM in response to James Mol
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    Nov 16, 2010 5:03 PM in response to James Mol
    This option worked for me. However the mp4 file is much larger than an flv file.
    I used to be able to just go to Activity,then find the videoplayback.flv file and double click on it.
    The file would start to download. Not anymore.
  • by hw6063,

    hw6063 hw6063 Nov 16, 2010 5:04 PM in response to hw6063
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    Nov 16, 2010 5:04 PM in response to hw6063
  • by Klaus1,

    Klaus1 Klaus1 Nov 17, 2010 2:07 AM in response to Tigor
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    Nov 17, 2010 2:07 AM in response to Tigor
    There is the Free iTube Grabber which can capture almost any audio and/or video stream (it says here:)

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10972178

    Firefox Download Helper is also supposed to work, you have to be logged into YouTube first.

    and the RealPlayer Downloader that comes with RealPlayer SP for Mac from:

    http://www.real.com/realplayer/mac

    which also downloads videos from YouTube.

    There is also iTubeX which allows you to download videos (Flash, HTML5 and others), .mp3 and .swf files from almost every website as easily as possible:

    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27604/itubex

    Lastly: How to download Flash videos and play them in Quicktime using Perian is explained here:

    http://perian.org/#watch

    It's the video at the bottom of the page.
  • by musick7,

    musick7 musick7 Dec 1, 2010 11:43 AM in response to Tigor
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    Dec 1, 2010 11:43 AM in response to Tigor
    Hi Tigor,

    If your Using Safari (I think any Version, Im using Safari 5.0.3 on intel Mac.) Which I've done the same thing on earlier version of Safari. as early as Safari 4.

    Click the "WINDOW" Tab at the Top. Scroll down to ACTIVITY Click it. If you have only ONE (1) Tab open it will make this Much easier… If not just close All Tabs but the YouTube.com Tab. Find the largest file over 1MB most will be over 10MB Double click it and it will open in the download window. your done.

    Follow Detailed instructions below.

    Step 1
    Select ~Safari/Window/Activity

    Step 2
    Within the Activity window that opens, Select Youtube ~ Click the Arrow next to youtube

    Step 3
    Look for a File that has 1MB or Larger. I just Downloaded Transformers 1 Trailer in HD it was about 1min long and 13.6MB
    Once you double click that larger file you'll see the Download window open and it will begin downloading…

    Step 4
    Your done. Find the file in your Home Folder "Downloads"

    HINT:
    This works for Almost Everything. Including Steaming Movies or Tv Shows on a almost every website.
    However it doesn't work for Hulu.com
    It will however download Hulu Commercials… But not the shows…

    Hint 2:
    If you want to Download Tv Shows like this you can always go to Letmewatchthis.com It works well there!
  • by Nello Lucchesi,

    Nello Lucchesi Nello Lucchesi Nov 20, 2011 4:50 PM in response to James Mol
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    Nov 20, 2011 4:50 PM in response to James Mol

    Excellet.  Working for me on Safari 5.1.1 under OSX 10.6.8.

     

    Only one modification.

     

    If the YouTube video has a link that says, "Use Original Player" then I found I had to click that link in order to see the file in the Safari Activity window.

  • by mike615,

    mike615 mike615 Aug 29, 2012 7:01 AM in response to Tigor
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    Aug 29, 2012 7:01 AM in response to Tigor

    good

  • by Landing Gear,

    Landing Gear Landing Gear Aug 29, 2012 9:37 AM in response to Tigor
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    Aug 29, 2012 9:37 AM in response to Tigor

    Simple.

    Just install YTO (YouTube Options) extension for Safari.

    https://spoi.com/software/yto/

     

    - Landing Gear

  • by Dicky38,

    Dicky38 Dicky38 Oct 17, 2014 1:39 AM in response to Tigor
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    Oct 17, 2014 1:39 AM in response to Tigor

    Hi buddy, to download youtube videos in mp4 format, I use the TENORSHARE FREE YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER FOR MAC and it is the best application that I have used. You can check it out with Google search  "tenorshare free youtube downloader for mac"

  • by Buchi Royia Havey,

    Buchi Royia Havey Oct 21, 2015 8:19 PM in response to Tigor
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    Oct 21, 2015 8:19 PM in response to Tigor

    To download youtube video in Mp4 format, you also try this esay method at How to Download YouTube Videos as MP4

     

    This method support batch download and download youtube playlist

  • by Darrenfocused,

    Darrenfocused Darrenfocused Mar 25, 2016 5:54 AM in response to Tigor
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    Mar 25, 2016 5:54 AM in response to Tigor

    Hi download VLC player (Open source application) http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

     

    Steps to save youtube video as MP4 video

    1) Copy youtube URL

    2) Open VLC and Select Playlist

    3) To Open Media in VLC

    4) Select Network

    5) Paste youtube URL into URL location

    6) Click Open

    7) Pause the Video and select the 3 little lines at the bottom near play, stop buttons.

    8) Then Two finger click on the Title and Select Media Information

    9) Select the URL located at the bottom in the URL bar

    10) Open a new Browser tab and paste the URL into it

    11) Pause video and two finger click on the video

    12) Select Download video as

    This will save in MP4 format ready for use