Amazing YouTube Video Tools Collection
October 13th, 2006
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[Regularly Updated] This is a collection of the best Youtube tools, hacks, mashups and top ways to download Youtube videos. YouTube is the most popular site to share your favorite videos. Recently YouTube was acquired by Google for a few billion dollars. Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience.
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Save and Download YouTube Videos
- Delutube – Lets you view deleted Youtube videos.
- Video Downloader – a firefox extension that allows you to download youtube videos to your computer from YouTube and most video sites.
- YouTubeX – allows you to save and download YouTube videos easily using only your IE or firefox browser.
- TubeSock – grabs YouTube videos from the web and copies them to your video iPod, Mac, or PlayStation Portable.
- VideoDL – is a quick AJAX application that allows you to download online video into your computer. It supports top 3 video sites – YouTube, Google Video, and Break.com.
- Download YouTube via bookmarklets – A collection of Greasemonkey scripts and bookmarklets to do the job.
- Youtube-dl – is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later.
- KeepVid – Download videos direct from most video sites like YouTube.
- YouTube Downloader – enter url and download YouTube videos.
- Youtube Grabber – is a free tool that downloads FLV files from youtube.
- GooTube FLV Retriever – enter the video page URL, download the youtube video.
- Capture Youtube and Google videos - save them as AVI files encoded in the MPEG4 format, using only one command.
- YouRipper – a freeware software which enables you to download videos from the YouTube and Google Video
- Save YouTube Videos – paste the youtube video url and download the video.
Top Youtube Third party tools
- Splicd – lets you isolate an interesting clip from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.
- YouTube Userscripts – a collection of scripts to perform several tasks with YouTube.
- Youtube Video Slideshow – insert a username or a video tag below and it starts a slideshow.
- fTube – a YouTube player that downloads the list of 25 most recent videos featured on the YouTube front page. The user can select a video from the list and hit the play button to play it in-Flash.
- TubeCH – YouTube flash player.
- iTube – grab Youtube videos, then convert and import them into iTunes. Requires .Net framework and works exclusively on Windows.
- TvTube – For Mac users. Allows you to browse YouTube, Google Video and Yahoo Videos, for movie clips that people upload, choose your favorite clips and add them to your shared library.
- YouTube API Extraction Tool – PHP script that taps into the YouTube API to deliver videos by tag, by username or what’s a current favorite.
- YouTube Widget – brings all of YouTubes videos to your Mac Dashboard.
- Search The Tube – A quick way to find videos for your website, blog or profile.
- YoutubeCrazyVideos – A Youtube videos desktop player. Freeware.
- IndexTube – categorized and browsable index of the publicly available Youtube videos.
- YouTube Podcaster – makes Podcast feed from your submitted keyword or url. The feed is made up from embedded youtube video IDs and all videos are converted to the MP4 file format.
- MemoriesOnWeb – freeware photo slideshow software for YouTube.
- Overstream – lets you add subtitles to online videos.
Integrate YouTube In Your Site or Blog
- YouTube badge maker – will show your viewers images of your 6 most recently uploaded videos.
- YouTube Wordpress Plugin – Display YouTube videos on your Wordpress blog according to Tags.
- YouTube Video Gallery Wordpress Plugin – displays a gallery of videos from youtube.com.
- WordPress Related Videos Plugin – Uses tags to look for related videos on YouTube, displays the three most recent related videos on your WordPress blog post and updates videos automatically.
- Wordpress Favourite YouTube Videos – Wordpress plugin / widget to display, in a very configurable manner, your latest favorite videos from Youtube.
- Viper’s Video Quicktags – WP plugin that easily generates codes for copy / pasting to embed videos from sites like YouTube and Google Video or for self-hosted videos into your posts.
- WP-FLV – Wordpress plugin simplfies the process of inserting flash video files (FLV) inside a Wordpress post or page.
- TubePress – a highly configurable WordPress plugin that displays YouTube videos in an embedded gallery in posts and/or pages.
Top / Best YouTube Videos Services
- PureVideo – collects top 10 videos from around the web
- The World Internet TV charts – tracks the most popular video clips from four leading Internet TV sites.
- Top YouTube Videos – a daily updated selection of the most popular videos from YouTube.
- Vidspedia – is a collection of the best Google and YouTube videos, submitted and rated by users.
- Youtube top-rated – a coverpop with the 1,001 top rated videos from YouTube updated every week.
- Best of YouTube – a blog selecting the best Youtube videos.
- Viral Video Chart – tracks the world’s most blogged about videos including GooTube and MySpace.
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A wonderful job.
Thanks.
Once again, a great QOT post. I love YouTube and I love QOT….my dream blog!!!
Search The Tube (www.searchthetube.com) – a lightweight/workplace safe interface to You Tube
Thanks for the list..
Great job! This site will become more poular after the Google purchase of YouTube.
Videosift.com is another site that allows users to submit and vote on videos. They allow submissions from most of the major video sharing sites, but the majority of the content comes from YouTube.
You should add the Daily Nut http://www.g4tv.com/dailynut its a daily podcast of the top 3 videos from around the web
For embedding galleries of YouTube videos in WordPress, try out TubePress:
http://ehough.com/youtube/tubepress
You forgot http://www.TheBestofYoutube.com
http://www.qlipp.com Best Gay Youtube Video
You should include on the Top / Best YouTube Videos the http://www.neave.tv/ site, it’s really great hehehe realllly
Great list, good job ^^
Thanks Wendy for the great article. However, I use this wonderful and simple tool to convert a batch or single FLV file (the youtube video format) to avi/ mpeg and mpeg 2 videos. The user “Qjimbo” at the Doom 9 forum wrote the application in response to a topic based on converting youtube videos and it works flawlessly and fast. Its much better and faster than any of the paid software out there that I tried out to convert Youtube videos. The tool along with the firefox extension Video Downloader is much easier than the describe method in article you provided. Download the tool at http://rainscape.org.uk/flvconvert.zip or goto the original post at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=104183 for more information.
Here’s a nice YouTube downloader:
http://www.saveyoutube.com
Very useful,thank you.
youripper
http://www.remlapsoftware.com/
I’ve made a Youtube tool for Windows Desktop
YoutubeCraztVideos:
http://www.instaladordecontenidos.com/indexEn.php
Check it out
You forgot http://entubao.miweblog.es too :)
A blog like “The best of youtube”, but from Spain.
Videos de youtube, googlevideo, metacafe y more sites of video.
http://www.videoronk.com
There is another nice wiki based index of youtube videos:
http://www.indextube.com/
You could add Viral Video Chart to your best of YouTube section…
You also should include on the Best YouTube Videos the http://sacalabasura.com/ a spanish humor site like digg.
Great list ;).
Webmunism http://www.webmunism.com – categorizes youtube videos with related flickr photos.
This is best Grabber for YouTube.
http://www.2g2.org
The Best Youtube Videos on a German Site:
http://bestofyoutube.ch.tf
just built a downloader and converter (Windows) that needs some testing/feedback.
http://www.krahne.com
called it kyootoob.
Thanks for the list..
http://www.myflashfetish.com/create-youtube-viewer.php
another cool youtube flash viewer.
i downloaded the youtube downloader and instantly my xp computer was infected by spyware. so watch out… some of this stuff is dangerous
Aggregate,Download and Convert hot videos of YouTube, MySpace Video,Google Video,etc.u c use http://www.leechvideo.com
I have written a C# Wrapper Assembly that encapsulates all the YouTube API functionality into a set of .Net methods and deserializes the result sets into objects for the .Net developer to use.
The Main YouTube DLL is written in C# but the Zip contains ASP.NET Web Application Projects written in C# and VB.NET that demonstrate some of the Functionality. All Source Code is provided.
N.B Projects are in Visual Studio 2005 format.
I have written a C# Wrapper Assembly that encapsulates all the YouTube API functionality into a set of .Net methods that deserializes the result sets into objects for the .Net developer to use.
Check out the demos