Although you can download YouTube videos while using a web browser and installing an addon for whatever the one that you're using with ease, but if you usually deal a lot with YouTube and their clip downloads, then wouldn't it be nice to have a dedicated application for that exact purpose?.
If your answer is "Yes", then you should check out ClipGrab. It's written in Qt-toolkit, looks awesome and importantly, lets you search and grab any YouTube videos (and many other similar online video sharing sites!) you want with ease.
Main features...
*. Search for video clips with thumbnail previews.
*. Change save location.
*. Choose the video container format: Original, MPEG4, OGG, WMV (Yikes!), MP3 and Ogg Theora (the official Ogg audio derivative for the video formats).
*. Add audio meta-tags automatically (album, artist, etc).
*. Change between video resolutions (1080p, 720p, 480p, medium or low, etc).
*. Clipboard support: meaning that, whenever you copy or play a YouTube video in your web browser for instance, ClipGrab will be able to automatically fetch that clip and let you download it easily at later.
*. It also supports Vimeo, Dailymotion, MySpass, Clipfish and mare other online video sharing sites.
*. Use proxy servers (you naughty geek! :P).
*. Enable/Disable run in the system tray area.
You can install ClipGrab in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.10 and 10.04 by using their PPA. For that please use the below commands in your Terminal window.
If your answer is "Yes", then you should check out ClipGrab. It's written in Qt-toolkit, looks awesome and importantly, lets you search and grab any YouTube videos (and many other similar online video sharing sites!) you want with ease.
Main features...
*. Search for video clips with thumbnail previews.
*. Change save location.
*. Choose the video container format: Original, MPEG4, OGG, WMV (Yikes!), MP3 and Ogg Theora (the official Ogg audio derivative for the video formats).
*. Add audio meta-tags automatically (album, artist, etc).
*. Change between video resolutions (1080p, 720p, 480p, medium or low, etc).
*. Clipboard support: meaning that, whenever you copy or play a YouTube video in your web browser for instance, ClipGrab will be able to automatically fetch that clip and let you download it easily at later.
*. It also supports Vimeo, Dailymotion, MySpass, Clipfish and mare other online video sharing sites.
*. Use proxy servers (you naughty geek! :P).
*. Enable/Disable run in the system tray area.
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| Settings window... |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppaIf it does not show in your menus... then simply press "Alt" + "F2" keys and enter the below command into the Run box and press "Enter".
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clipgrab
clipgrab
