* Click on the line of the video in the “activity window” If double-clicking doesn’t work (and a lot of times it doesn’t), do the following instead: Click on the little arrow to look through the activity for “YouTube – Video Name” (or vise versa) and do one of two things: Look for the address of the file that has numbers (Ex: ), or look for the largest file size (usually 1 MB or more) and double-click on it to download it. Press “Command + Option + A”, or go to Windows > Activity to bring up the ‘Activity Monitor’ window in Safari.ģ. Launch an independent Safari window with the YouTube video you want to download.Ģ. I combined this tutorial and one from another site. Now you see the video downloading at the download shortcut link in the upper righthand corner. Insert your cursor at the end of the address field, for those using Safari 6 you have a simplified address bar, and once it’s there press option+enter. You’ll notice the video is now playing in Apples native HTML5 format. if you command click that file, or command double click depending on your settings, the video will open in a new tab or window.
You don’t need additional programs to download files that are converted to HTML5. Now you should see in the activity window the file uploading, a large downloading file. The middle folder has an option slider to set how much access flash has to store on your computer. ‘right’ click on the flash player or video playing to bring up flash menu settings (3rd from the bottom indicated by “… additional options”, a small window with 5 or folders or tabs appears. Most likely, it’s a flash file that’s playing, even though it can be converted to an HTML5. If you want to download songs tracks from video there’s an easy way to do just that too, using an app that extracts the audio track from the video file in question. Robert also tells us that this should work in the Windows version of Safari but I can’t confirm that.
Confirm the file extension change, and now you can watch the downloaded movie in VLC or Perian equipped QuickTime.Find the file that you downloaded (usually named get_video or videoplayback.flv) in the Finder and edit the name so that it has a.Look through the activity for “Video Name”, look for the largest file size and double click to download it.Press Command+Option+A, or go to Windows > Activity to bring up the ‘Activity Monitor’ window in Safari.Launch an independent Safari window with the video you want to download.
OK without further adieu, here are the steps he Robert provided us to download and save web video or flash files to Mac OS X:
This should works to download any web video so long as it gets loaded into the Safari browser or cache, but you should be certain to only use this on video content that specifically allows for sharing and for such downloading for offline usage – not all movie and video content on the web has that license and it’s important for you to determine that on your own.