YouTube Video Download

By rossy! Last update Jan 10, 2013 — Installed 1,252,489 times.

08:00 GMT - YouTube 'downloaders' stop working

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Landis User
FirefoxX11

I was watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLmt6i-hBY (Everlast, 'I get by'), at end of video when the page semi refreshes to load thumbs and offer option to replay..
This [url=http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105] [/url] Download script's, 'download button' vanished.
so, I installed [url=http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/62634] this script [/url]. The 'download button' is there, but when clicked, it errors with "Error: No downlaod formats available"

Landis.

 
Landis User
FirefoxX11

I've been through more than dozen.. None work as of this morning!
Landis.

 
Landis User
FirefoxX11

I don't know if this helps, but this script has not been blocked from installing it's buttons and menus on the top of the video.. I understand it does something different, but it's not blicked...

Landis.

 
Landis User
FirefoxX11

I don't know if this helps, but this script has not been blocked from installing it's buttons and menus on the top of the video.. I understand it does something different,
but it's not blocked... http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50003

Landis.

 
QuHno User
OperaWindows

Can't reproduce that with the video you linked to. This script still works fine and lets me download the video in a bunch of formats up to 1080p

 
lorax User
FirefoxWindows

I'm getting no formats available too. It just started that yesterday, so YouTube must have mucked around again.

 
dcpoor User
FirefoxWindows

Don't know if this is related but this would indicate to me that youtube changed some stuff last week.

I used this script in conjunction with the firefox add-on Flashblock for a long time without any problems. I would be able to save Youtube videos when flash was off/blocked. But starting last week I would get the "Error: No download formats available" error when Flashblock was enabled. I tried another Youtube download userscript and that worked when Flashblock was enabled. So it seems like whatever changes Youtube made affects this particular script due to the way it was designed/programmed.

 
somercet User
FirefoxX11

I saw "Error: No downlaod formats available" as well. Re-enabling Flashblock restored functionality for me, as well.

 
SBscripts Scriptwright
Firefox

I can confirm the error here.
I have no flash installed @ this computer, turned on experimental HTML5, am logged in automatically (████ Google!) without a YouTube channel and I'm running Firefox 9.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. I click the first video I see and the download list is empty. Now, I trash all YouTube cookies. The download menu is working again. Thanks to this script, despite showing a lot of errors, the video still works.

I will see if I can reproduce the error and save the console contents, then I will post it here.

 
QuHno User
OperaWindows

Hm ... In one of my Opera instances I have flash disabled and now get the HTML5 version of the videos without explicitly opting in (cookies disabled) the script still works without flaws. In the other instance Flash was on but it still worked (see screenshot of the above mentioned "Everlast" video: http://quhno.internetstrahlen.de/test/yt-dl-ujs... ) I don't know if it makes a difference but in my version of the script I have put the whole script content into an anonymous function to avoid clashes with other scripts, may be that helps with Firefox too?

(The Greasemonkey implementation of userscripts is a little bit different to Opera's native implementation, may be that makes a difference too)

 
SBscripts Scriptwright
FirefoxX11

When I hit this bug again, I tried to gather as much data as possible.
YouTube Video Download - screenshot with links
After I disabled HTML5 playback, the download links showed up again. Cookies, localStorage after disabling.

 
Whatever Dude User
FirefoxWindows

The download button looks different since a couple of days. I wish that HTML5 issue can get fixed soon, this script is my favourite one.

 
Latebinder B... User
OperaX11

I got the error, but the button still functioned and things were clear on reload. (Opera-Next 12 build 13xx) Y'sure you didn't add other YouTube lubricators and flash movie deferrals (also in Extensions/Javascript?)

 
QuHno User
OperaWindows

I still didn't run into the error problem despite having flash disabled.
the only error I get is:
[18.03.1970 15:40:52] JavaScript - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE7ykfiy5TI
User Javascript thread
Uncaught exception: TypeError: Cannot convert 'document.getElementById' to object
Error thrown at line 11, column 0 in program code:
with(document.getElementById('movie_player'))

which is fine for me so far because no flash == no movie_player

About the pure optical glitch with the look of the download button:
Replace:
className: "yt-uix-button" + (watchFlag.disabled ? "" : " yt-uix-tooltip") + " yt-uix-tooltip-reverse",
by
className: "yt-uix-button" + (watchFlag.disabled ? "" : " yt-uix-tooltip") + " yt-uix-tooltip-reverse yt-uix-button-default",

 
BASiQ Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

Same error for me as well.
"Error: No downlaod formats available"

Until the creator fixes it, this one works for now.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/123836

 
SUPER_KEG Scriptwright
OperaWindows

It works for me using latest Opera 11.61, I have however added the option to also save the uploaders username (%c) and it always comes as undefined as of a couple of days now, video title (%t) and video id (%v) work fine

 
titanicus Scriptwright
OperaX11

It works for me if I go here: http://www.youtube.com/html5 and leave HTML5 test mode. If HTML5 test mode is on, the script does not work.

 
Classic User
FirefoxWindows

Again does not work.

 
Classic User
FirefoxWindows

Does not work on the page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g65ANaVnL4&feat...

 
joeytwiddle Scriptwright
FirefoxX11

Works for me in Chrome, but not in Firefox 13.0 where I get "Error: No downlaod formats available". I am not in the HTML5 trial.

 
Xyzzy Magic User
FirefoxX11

In Firefox 13 with Flashblock installed, I'm getting the same error even before I click to enable the embedded Flash player.

 
SUPER_KEG Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

The author seems to have moved on to other things. Will anyone create a real fork, or ask him to come back?

 
x86 User
FirefoxWindows

Stopped working today, for example on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieSlTLIKJ0

No matter which format I choose, it will lead to a blank page.

 
Eezy User
OperaWindows

same error here. looks like all the download scripts no longer work. we need a fix.