YouTube Downloader (tool to download YouTube videos) with source code

Published on May 13, 2009 in Tools. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Update: latest version is 1.2.1.

YouTube Downloader is a very easy to use open-source tool done to do just what the title says: download YouTube videos…

You just have to enter the URL you use to watch the video, lets say “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZXjSy0Ogk”, specify the desired quality, and it calculates the real source URL for the video file, asks you the destination path and then starts downloading it…


Before pressing “Download”, you can choose the option “Let me choose” to be able to select which video format to download from the ones offered by YouTube…

Once finished, you just have to open your videos using a video player according to the downloaded video file type. To open FLV videos, you can use any FLV Player…

There is a little trick you can do to get YouTube’s FLV real source URL so you can download it with a download accelerator or send it to someone else… Just input the video URL and double click the YouTube Downloader logo next to the “Video URL” label… It will then calculate the URL and paste it on the textbox so you can copy it:

And that’s it…

YouTube Downloader is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 (attached)…

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Now, finally, the links:

Version History

Version 1.2.1

  • Adaptation to YouTube’s site format change

Version 1.2

  • Support for the different video formats offered by YouTube (you can choose which one to download)
  • UTF8 to Extended ASCII conversion for filenames (no more strange characters on most languages)

Version 1.1.5

  • First released version

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