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July 11, 2006

Update to YouTube Greasemonkey script

Just received a patch to the YouTube greasemonkey script I posted a long time ago.

This one should work with the updates YouTube has made to its website.

Right-click to install User Script

Downloaded files must be renamed with a .flv file extension and played back in a Flash Video capable media player.

Posted by jkinberg at July 11, 2006 6:14 PM

Comments

cool idea, but it didnt work for me. i made a script that solved my slightly different issue - not being able to view youtube at all..due to not having flash. linked via my nick above.. cheers..now i can get around to watching the links here ;)

Posted by: carmen at July 16, 2006 12:32 AM

Hi, I have written a bunch of similar scripts and bookmarklets. Check them out if you like: http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.html

Posted by: 1024k.de at August 1, 2006 11:29 AM

Useful script .But doesnot work with Opera .
Here's a small fix to make this script work with Opera .Change the following line from

var t_id = playerDiv.src.match(/t=([^(\&|$)]*)/)[1];

TO

var t_id = playerDiv.getAttribute('src').match(/t=([^(\&|$)]*)/)[1];


Any ideas on how to display the download link right next to the movie .

Posted by: Vinod at September 28, 2006 12:10 AM

They must have updated the site again. The DIV is now called "playerDiv".

Use this instead:

var html = document.getElementById("playerDiv").innerHTML;

Now parse the contents of the variable "html".

Posted by: Surfer at October 11, 2006 6:52 AM

I've been using a web-based YouTube video downloader that doesn't require any plugins at http://www.saveyoutube.com

Posted by: Larry at November 8, 2006 3:55 PM

@Surfer:

but with this script, you don't want the DIV around the player, you want the EMBED that contains the player, which is still named 'movie_player'.

Posted by: Coderjoe at December 5, 2006 4:22 PM

And it broke again. Patch is at:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tmaher/pub/youtubetome.user.js

Posted by: Tom at September 2, 2007 3:34 AM

Thanks for the update Tom / the download works fine.

Posted by: DN at September 18, 2007 10:33 PM

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