how to download videos in safari 6.0

I am a bit confused as to why Safari 5 ENABLED us to breach YouTube and other content providers terms in the first place.

This is just a guess, but I would hope that this change in behavior was intended. Personally I do not use Safari, so it is of no interest to me.

Here is an example: I produce a video; provided that all the material is mine, it is my property. If I want to share it with friends, I will give them a copy. If I want many people to see it, I could publish it on Youtube - if I want the world to have copies, I can provide a download link. If, however, my intent is that the world can only watch it, (which would be my prerogative since it is my property) - since it is not their property, they have absolutely no right to download it, which is the equivalent of stealing my property. So, I will never upload any of my work to Youtube (or any other site) unless I can be sure that it cannot be downloaded.

FWIW, I am not an advocate of the DMCA; I do respect others' property though.

And: the hosts here have deleted posts or entire threads trying to find workarounds.

I've been having the exact same issue. When you press ⌘+Option+A, your presented with the "Web Inspector/Activity Window". At this point, there is a little tool in the upper-right side of that window. It looks like a hand or or the cursor image to a hyperlink. Click that and and select the video on the browser. Once you've clicked this, it provdes a link into the activity window/pane. It will either start downloading when the link is pressed or it will open u in a new webpage...

This is where I'm stuck... In Safari 5.0, you could right cick on the file, go to inspect element and from that point, it would begin to download. however in safari 6.0 one the inspect element window is opened, you don't have the same options as you did in safari 5.0. Please help... We're all very close!

By the way, if it matters, I'm not doing this through YouTube, I'm doing it through an educational site. I'm not sure if there's a difference. A movie file is a movie file, right?

I think I have the solution. At least for .flv files (which can be saved as .mov files, if you prefer)
1. Make the “Develop” menu available by going to the Advanced pane in Safari 6 Preferences and checking the box for “Show Develop menu in menu bar.”
2. When you have a video playing or loading on a Safari page, hit ⌥⌘A or pull down “Show Page Resources” from the Develop menu. The geeky, convoluted “Web Inspector” window opens.
3. Click somewhere in the middle section (to “let it know” that’s where you’ll be searching) and press ⌘F to open a little search window at the top right of that middle section.
4. Type .flv in the search window (or should it be called a search “box”?).
5. Now scroll down till you see a good-sized blue-highlighted selection. Copy that to the clipboard (⌘C).
6. Now open Quicktime 7. QuickTime Player which comes with Lion, won’t do the trick. I could be wrong, though…
(Not sure whether QT 7 Pro is required or not. I think it may be; but QT Pro is a very good onetime $30 investment and you should have it anyway. QT 7 does not come with Lion, but the Lion version of it is freely available on the Apple site. If Pro is required, you should buy it).
7. Moving right along: In QT 7 Press ⌘U (File menu, Open URL…) and paste the clipboard contents into that little window.
8. You will have to “clean up” all the crud from what you just pasted: Remove the "> at the very end and all the stuff that precedes the http://

9. Press OK and a QT window should open with your movie. If your movie is long, it will take a few minutes to load.
10. Save as… is very important here, I think, because it may not always be available on the web page where you found it.
Good luck, people. I’ll look for responses to see if anyone else had good luck or found even easier ways to do this. (Or maybe someone can say what I said in 25 words or less!)

http://www.macxdvd.com/free-youtube-video-downloader-mac/

I have another solution http://keepvid.com/

I did for this Safari 6.0 version

refresh the page after opening the inspector and the "other" folder will then be shown... then you can find the file that you are looking for....

and to the forum moderator... I don't believe anyone was trying to circumvent any restrictions that youtube has put forth... besides... the file is downloaded to your computer for viewing purposes... just because coporations like people to be ignorant so that they can some how make money off of them doesn't mean people are going to continue sitting on their bums while corporations find more and more ways to make you pay for what we used to get for free.

thanks

you have to agree to the terms of use that youtube or any other hosting site has set forth before uploading any material.

anything you view on the internet is downloaded to your computer... so the idea that knowing where the files are on your computer is somehow illegal is mind boggling... we can talk about copyright infringement until we are all blue in the face... but I personally would rather everyone have the same knowledge so that as people we can start getting rid of those in power who try to keep others ignorant.

somehow in the midst of all of this... youtube is hosting full movies. unless youtube now owns universal studios, fox, and a few others there is a ton of infringement going on.

just rambling

anything you view on the internet is downloaded to your computer..

Really? If that were true, then you would be able to view anything you had previously viewed within your browser AFTER you quit/close the browser. When viewing website content within your browser, it is only viewable within the browser while you are online and on that particular site - you are viewing it, not downloading it.

so the idea that knowing where the files are on your computer is somehow illegal is mind boggling

In order to have those files on your computer, you must actually download them with the help of the website or your own software app. If you do that, then you can watch it later. That is the step that is in violation of the Youtube ToU:

Content is provided to you AS IS. You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as intended through the provided functionality of the Service and as permitted under these Terms of Service. You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content.

you have to agree to the terms of use that youtube or any other hosting site has set forth before uploading any material.

Yes - did you read the ToU? Uploading is transferring your files to Youtube. Downloading is transferring someone else's file to your computer; unless they have given permission, you are violating the rules.

http://www.isitlegaltodo.com/is-it-legal-to-download-youtube-videos

Thanks, I think I'll add to my list - good resource.

using safari 6.0, qt player 10.1

your solution actually works, i've tried it. choose file > open location in qt player and paste in the file location retrieved as said in previous replies. once started choose file > export and voila!

My job is to download videos for a TV station. Safari 6 has completely messed this up and

now the managers are trying to figure out how to get 25 new MBP running Lion, downgraded to Snow Leopard.

Anyway, I used to view the Video in the webbrowser and then drag the URL window icon to the

download panel.

How do I do it now?

Am I going to have to downgrade (unlikely) or run Firefox (I woud rather not).

Ian

Thanks for this, I tweaked it a little and it works brilliantly with QT 7 Pro and Safari 6. Here is my slightly tweaked version of the workflow. No need to downgrade or use third party software. Thanks to FontainbleauTed.

Navigate to page with video in Safari.

Go to Develop menu (enable in Safari Preferences under Advanced Tab)

Click on Show Web Inspector

Refresh page

Other folder will appear in left hand panel of Web Inspector (it's important to either have Web Inspector open when you open the page in safari or refresh the page after you have opened the Web Inspector for the Other folder to show)

Open Other folder

There will be one file in the Other folder

Click on file name

Look in the right hand panel of the Web Inspector you will see a heading Full URL

Select the entire url

Right click and Copy

Go to Quicktime

Select File Menu

Click on Open URL

Paste in the URL field

When the video has loaded click on File Menu

Click on Export

The workflow might seem long but it isn't too bad and produces better results quicker IMHO than RealPlayer Downloader which couldn't even see the videos at all.

Regards

Alleno51

There are videos that fall under the Creative Commons licence. They can be downloaded for personal use. Not all CC works have a download button or feature next to them. Photos, for example, don't have a download button next to them in every case. but are declared as CC. Sometimes you must right-click, and use software from your computer to download them. Videos work the same way, as in this case, outlined in this forum, you manually find the page resources and extract the video. You shouldn't assume ALL videos downloaded in this manner are absconded in an illegal manner. Sometimes it is necessary to legally extact videos with this technique. Go cry me a river please!

It can be done without involving QT as other posts have.

1) Make sure develope menu is enabled, from Safari preferences advanced

2) Make sure the video you need is playing in Safari window, if many Safari windows are open, click on the window playing the video to make it active.

3) Press Cmd+Opt+A to open the Web Inspector and Press Cmd+F . A find box opens in the center column ... type .mov or .flv depending on the format of the video playing.

4) Scroll to the highlighed lines of script/html and you will see an url that safari helpfully shows as a link. Right click and select download linked file.

It just now worked for Steve Jobs video on apple website fine.