ClipGrab – Download videos from online video sharing websites
Posted by admin on January 18th, 2009
Install ClipGrab
Click this 
1-click installer supported on openSUSE 11.1/11.0/10.3 from packman to install ClipGrab. This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install ClipGrab and the required dependencies. Click next on the ClipGrab installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install ClipGrab and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.
This should install ClipGrab under “Applications – Multimedia – More Programs” as “Video Downloader“. Click Video Downloader to launch ClipGrab.
Enter the URL for the Video and click Preview (if you prefer to preview before downloading) or click Start Download to start downloading directly. You can enter multiple URLs at the same time to download at once.
Click here to visit the project homepage.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Is there a typo here?
“Click this one-click installer supported on openSUSE 11.0/11.0/10.3 from packman to install ClipGrab.”
Does the installer support 11.1, too?
January 20th, 2009 at 3:29 am
I think it is. ill fix it now
January 20th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
You do know that downloading content is a violation of terms-of-service for these
websites (youtube in particular)?
Having said that you can legally do it, if (and only if) you have permission from the
copyright holder
January 21st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Thanks for fixing the typo!
I also recommend keepvid.com where you can add a bookmarklet for Keepit. Hit the Keepit bookmarklet and it will grab the video giving achoice of possible formats.
Google GetYoutube for another javascript bookmarklet that grabs only as mp4.
“You do know that downloading content is a violation of terms-of-service for these
websites (youtube in particular)?”
Other than terminating a user account, what can Youtube reasonably do? Sue? Where’s the signed contract? Silly, really, because when I view a Youtube video, it is downloaded to cache. So, by merely viewing a Youtube video, I have violated their TOS.
Lawyers. Bleh!
February 8th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Only problem is that the list of supported sites is woefully small. The DownloadHelper Firefox extension supports dozens of sites – but invariably never the one I want to download from. The fact is, a properly designed site will simply have the file stashed somewhere and the direct URL simply will not appear on any Web page. Fortunately many sites aren’t well designed.