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Can't "save as" .mp3 file on safari

GGJstudios: I agree. But this thread pertains to a situation in which the user has the URL of the file, no?

Regardless, now with Safari 5, all this discussion is moot. There are plenty of extensions available for free that let you download Youtube videos.



irmongoose
 
What the hell, guys? You're using UNIX & no one's mentioned wget. By far the best downloader you're ever going to find.
 
I've encountered similar problems, and usually ignored it until now when I tried to figure it out.

I just tried downloading an HD youtube video in 720p. The regular flash video is easily done via activity monitor and downloads as "videoplayback" which I need to add ".flv" to in order to play it. Unfortunately when switching to HD, a different file is used, which seems to be the original .mp4 file.


Double-clicking in Activity Monitor opens a new window with the video loaded directly, and there is no save option in the task bar. Fortunately Safari does have the ability to "download linked file" when right clicking a link that would otherwise lead to the same type of page, so as mentioned earlier in the thread, I just made a local HTML file with nothing but the link in it. Simply right-click, "download linked file", and you're done.


If you don't know HTML, it's simple. Open Text-edit, paste the following, then save it with a .html extension. Double-click the file which should open in the browser, and right click the link, which I aptly named "link", and select "download linked file".

Code: 
<html>


<a href="http://www.paste-link-to-file-here-between-these-quotes"> link </a>

</html>
 
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