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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I reccomend http://www.snatchvid.com it’s very fast and easy!
Another tool My Video Downloader
It downloads from YouTube, MySpace and 50+ others, then it converts the file to iPod, PSP, Zune, 3gp, DVD, VCD, DVD and XviD.
Very cool app and easy to use.
Hi.
Please add http://www.YouTubeBestVideos.com to your great list.
Regards
ifunpix is an application that include a mini browser that you can use to navigate in youtube.com, when you see a video that you like you can click the download button. now you can watch your downloaded videos and copy them to your mobile phone using WAP
Check this article out:
How To Make YouTube Videos Look Great
http://www.squidoo.com/youtuberight/
Please add this in your list. This tool is very cool.
Link You can add Youtube player on your webpage. This Google gadget will let you search videos and play it on your webpage without going to Youtube’s website. This is a cool gadget uses AJAX and uses the Youtube’s RSS feed. It uses Google’s content handler library to get data from Youtube. A good example of circumventing cross domain problem in AJAX.
ifunpix is an application that include a mini browser that you can use to navigate in youtube.com, when you see a video that you like you can click the download button. now you can watch your downloaded videos and copy them to your mobile phone using WAP
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
Hi Guys I thought maybe you should check out this tool. Leplayer it allows you to play , search, and save Youtube Videos in a great way.
Download Leplayer and see for yourselves
Cheers
Rob
Please add http://www.savevideodownload.com, it can download not only youtube video, but also google video.
you could add these online tools:
TubeLeech: paste the youtube username and get download links for all his videos.(no more need to copy/paste each video link like with keepvid etc) http://www.tubemall.net/tubeleech.php
Whotube: got the videoid of a deleted/private video and you want to know the author? paste the id inside whotube.
http://www.tubemall.net/whotube.php
Undeletube:
Like Delutube but this saves a copy of the video that can be re-uploaded if the original link goes down.
http://www.tubemall.net/undeletube.php
TubEmAll:
a small free program that will download all the videos of the selected user for you, will save thumbnails and will make an html gallery of the downloaded files.
http://www.tubemall.net
I’m looking for a script that I can use on my website that displays and updates the number of video views:, comments:, etc that are appearing on a given YouTube page. (i.e. if I have 1000 views today, on my home-made page it reads 1000. If I have 2000 views tomorrow on YouTube, then my personal web page will also read 2000 views. I pulled the page source and it doesn’t look like using that code will allow the numbers to update on my page too.
Thanks for any help here.
http://www.ifunpix.com is an application that include a mini browser that you can use to navigate in youtube.com, when you see a video that you like you can click the download button. now you can watch your downloaded videos and copy them to your mobile phone using WAP
My fave is http://yuxt.com A video bookmarking tool that allows you to organize videos into collections from numerous video hosting sites. Very simple to use and it’s fun
Download and save videos directly from YouTube, Google, Bolt, iFilm, MySpace, DailyMotion, Blip.tv and Break.com! Visit Take9.com today!
you can add promote your YouTube videos on http://www.youtubeclips.org for quick search YouTube your clips
I use http://www.savetube.com to save youtube videos.
BienneSoft Youtube Downloader is free
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
I can’t wait to start using some of the great tools you listed!
Great job, thanks dude i have always love youtube and there’s too much videos that has been deleted and i needed to download! Neat!!
Is there a way to upload Youtube videos via an API and then know how many views it got?
out of these video downloader firefox extension and online download is the best….it rocks….
Excellent group of tools PC, I’m going to probably put together a collection of my own soon. I’ll do my best to keep it original though.
You also forgot this site for funniest videos: http://www.besttopvideos.com
http://www.youtubecommunityforum.com – Learn how to become a real director, youtube help info, learn how to edit videos, a new way to share your ideas, be apart of the biggest video broadcasting forum on the net.
wow, excellent. thanks :)
This will be the ultimate (All-in-One) MySpace
YouTube Bot. Release date will be late June 2006
Funpy.net allows you serach and download youtube videos in the most popular formats, such as AVI, 3GP, MP4 and MP3. Full quality, free and a lot of videos.
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Best software – easy, and simple
I use ZillaTube ( from http://www.zillatube.com ) very easy to use.
Built-in player for youtube video, mpg,avi,mp4, 3g, mp3, etc Just drop the downloaded files into it, and sit back, and view. Easy. And if you like it, you convert them to good quality videos. Do all these with just one program.
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Here is another site to add to the list :)
You can also download YouTube Video, Google Video, Dailymotion, ifilm, Break, putFile, grouper, MySpace, That Video Site, Grinvi,…all in one page in one click. Check out this site: http://boomvid.com
Enjoy!!!
Boomvid.com
Could you add TubeTop100.com to the list? It features an archive of every daily YouTube video top 100.