If you ever feel strongly enough about a YouTube video and desire to download it for later viewing pleasure simply give it a kiss. Truly – it will be yours forever.
How to Kiss a YouTube Video?
If you are watching a video in YouTube the address that appears in the address bar will look like e.g:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqLgiUv5FEk
Add the word kiss directly before the YouTube name:
Eg. http://kisswww.youtube.com/watch?v=EqLgiUv5FEk
Press ‘enter’ and you are taken to a service called Kiss YouTube. The address of the video you want to download is shown in a box at the top of the page. Simply press the ‘Go’ button next to this and a you are taken to a page where you can download the video to your machine. You must ensure the file is saved with the .flv extension.
(If you do not have a program that will play .flv files then Kiss provides a list of .flv players to download and converters that will allow you to watch the videos in your normal player.)
Another alternative is to copy the url of the YouTube video you wish to download, go to the Kiss YouTube site and paste the url into the box at the top of the page.
The video in this example is called ‘Strange and Beautiful in New Haven, Connecticut’, created by Sandy Carlson. Sandy has uploaded 217 video clips to date as part of ‘Strange Attractions, Exploring Graffiti’, her ongoing research project into the creative aspects of this visual art form. You’ll find more on this topic at Sandy’s blog Strange Attractions: Exploring Graffiti.
KissYouTube also has a video tutorial on YouTube.
I am not sure what the copyright restrictions would be if you were to convert the a downloaded video to flash format and upload it to your site rather than linking to it from YouTube. Perhaps someone could enlighten us on this? I was able to download a video that, in YouTube, does not allow embedding on web sites
If you cherish a YouTube video don’t forget to show your love and kiss it.
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^_^ ~~~ I simply use one software called ZillaTube to do all these… download, view and convert youtube videos very easily and quickly.
by the way zillatube is from http://www.zillatube.com
Thanks, I will check out Zilla Tube.
Thanks for that, Sue! Wow. Hey, I love your blog and find it very helpful when you blog about blogging. Can I link you to Writing in Faith?
God bless!
Hi Sandy and thank you. You may certainly link to me – I am a real fan of your blogs and enjoy looking through your youtube videos too.
It’s a little bit complicated.
Interesting way to download youtube videos, ill give it a try thank you for sharing this.
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really interesting post. it will be really useful for people who need this. looking forward to see more of this kind.
thanks.
I just find a free green youtube downloader, small and easy to use. just goto http://download.cnet.com/McSee-Youtube-Video-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10911792.html?tag=mncol, download and have a try.
Hahaha.. very good post, but it is not so easy on a first read.
Thanks for the tutorial, the actual link to download a youtube video is:
http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=EqLgiUv5FEk
The other one just gave me an error.
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Thanks for the correction – I have updated the post to reflect the change.
Thats quite incredible. I thought it was impossible to rip youtube videos, so am surprised it’s this simple. I need to get kissing! leopard book
It is easy to use, Video Download Studio is a great vide download and convert tool.
It can not be more easy to use, just copy and paste the URL to download a video.
This software also help you convert a video.
http://www.ahisoft.com/video-download-studio-pro
I thought it was impossible to rip youtube videos, so am surprised it’s this simple.
Interesting artical..I had no idear it was this simply to download…I will give it a go..Thanks…and to all who gave the links…
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