YouTube Downloader

By Bret McDanel Last update Oct 2, 2008 — Installed 2,648 times.
Script Summary:
Creates a download link for youtube videos with different resolutions. Optionally removes comments on video pages. Multilingual.
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Description

This script will place links allowing you to download in either flv or mp4 format. In addition you can remove user comments.

The flv names are "weird" and do not contain a file extension, mp4 is always Video.mp4.

Features

    Links for low res, high res (when available) and mp4 downloads
    Supports both the regular videos and channels (user pages)
    Multilingual
  • Dutch
  • English
    Optionally checks for new version and allows you to update easily
    Optionally remove comments on video pages

TODO

    add more languages
    add more customizable options
    add more youtube cleanup/reorganize features
    User Suggested Features?? add a comment and I will see what I can do

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Properties Used

In order to store persistent data there are a few properties that are set, which may be manually edited by directing your browser to about:config

    version - string - this should probably not be changed, its the current script version used for checking updates
    ignoreUpdates - boolean - if true updates are not checked or reported when a new version is released
    lastCheck - integer - The day of the week (0-6) of the last check so we only look for updates once per day
    deleteComments - boolean - Whether or not to remove the comments from the watch pages

Credits

    gmc - dutch translations
    Inspiratio - dutch translations

Revision History

This is not a complete revision history, I am not including minor bug fixes or cosmetic tweaks.

20081002.03-9 A lot of minor tweaks and bug fixes went into this series

20081002.02 Added ability to selectively remove comments from pages

20081001.01 Added script update functions