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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Another tool for your list:
http://www.codejam.com/slideshow/mow.htm
Cool freeware for generating photo/video slideshows with lots of customization possibilities. Integrates seamlessly with YouTube.
hi does any one know where can i get the you script because i want to make website same as you tube website for people to upload their video many thanks
Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion… and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (LeechVideo.com offers all kinds of online Video format,wmv,flv,etc.) ! Directly & quickly!
Slideroll has a videomaker that turns Slideroll slideshows into true video you can upload to YouTube. You can create slideshows from photos you upload or from your Flickr photos.
I love this site! View over a 100 YouTube thumbs at a time! Then either watch them or download them. Zoom in and out, too! http://video.ayeQ.com is cool…no spyware or ads.
Thanks for giving out a list like this
here in http://www.gadwhat.com you will find a zone named gadtube with only the best youtube videos, THE BEST OF THE BEST .. ONLY ! . Check them out :)
hi, you can use keepstream (alternative) to download youtube video ! Thom.
You lack the one: Videobox
;-)
Handy resource, thanx for putting this together! I’ve been using YouTube more recently and this helps me get even more outta it.
Hi, is there any tool or trick to increase the views (popularity) of my YouTube uploaded videos?
FLV Online Converter: http://vixy.net/flv_converter
YouTube Podcaster: http://vixy.net/youtube_podcaster
check out http://www.youtubia.com it’s a full youtube clone and allow you search as well as download any youtube vidoes, it’s an all-in-one site…very cool
If you want to search and batch download from Youtube.com, try the BrownRecluse script ?youtube_SDL_dd_mm_yyp.zip? on Softbytelabs.com (check the WebFiles tab). The script is free and very powerful. Even creates thumbnail pages .
Sab
Not sure if you noticed http://tinytube.net, a way to watch youtube videos on your cell phone. Works with all 3G video phones. The guy who runs this is a grad student from UCLA who got a jump on the bigco’s by cobbling together this amazing service before the Telcos could get their act together..
I use Savetube to save youtube videos.
Hi,
Can you please tell is there any way to upload videos into youtube from an API ,
or can we upload videos directly from our application using any interface…..
thanks in advance.
Anyone know of a batch uploader for youtube? I have about 200 short home movies I’d like up on my youtube profile and really don’t want to upload them by hand.
Great job! This site will become more poular after the Google purchase of YouTube.
Thanks a lot !
I thought I read an article about a week or so ago on how to save a picture from within a YouTube video as a single picture without having to save the entire video; I can’t seem to locate that article. Is there such a thing or did I misread?
What I’m looking to do is save a single frame as a jpeg file or the like. I don’t want the entire video and don’t want the picture to be anything else except a snapshot (so to speak).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Is there a way/program that can download multiple video’s (for example the 10 newest movies) to my computer? So not an online playlist url’s one by one…
You can add subtitles to youtube videos with overstream.net
You should include SaneScreen : A free video directory, indexing and sorting the videos on Youtube and Dailymotion. It uses a wiki.
http://sanescreen.org
youtube is great……………
you forget to add http://www.youtubevideosdownload.com
View Box Player 1.0 – Keep forgetting that one. Once you use it, you should understand why it should be on this list.
I use SaveTube to save any youtube videos.
thx u very much for superb YouTube research! My all-times favorite is Youtube Crazy Videos. Thx. QOT rocks!
Deleted youtube viewer http://deletedyoutube.ftvteen.com
Find and rate all video sharing sites around!
Downloads from YouTube, MySpace and many more. Then converts the file to iPod, PSP, DVD, XviD, 3gp, Zune, VCD, SVCD. It does it all! Very easy to use 3 step process! Ohh and did I mention you have full control over the quality settings? That is awesome!