On Monday 17 Aug 2009, steve wrote:
Just to add to the list of suggestions, here is what I use:
youtube-dl - Nice cli script http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/
Download Helper extension for Firefox - This is especially nice, since it lets you also discover new video sites, through it's 'Supported sites' option. http://www.downloadhelper.net/
You know, I tried a couple of FF extensions for downloading videos (including downloadhelper IIRC) and wasn't very impressed with their consistency -- they would refuse to download at least half the videos I wanted to watch. Apart from that, I'm not too happy giving control to a remote site for downloading videos and displaying $deity-only-knows adware, so for the time being I'm sticking to the JS snippet I posted, which I can see is safe and secure :) The youtube-dl script looks neat, will gave that a shot for when I need command-line access. There's also clive, installable as a package in Debian, at least, which claims to do something similar (not tested at all).
BTW, in case you folks missed it, here's one more reason to not have Flash installed in your browser:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think- again/ [URL has wrapped]
Regards,
-- Raju