Help With Saving Correct YouTube Videos On Safari...

[Bazzy]

Hi All,

I am trying to collate some videos from YouTube on my 2015 rMBP so I do not have to search for them later on.

I right click a YouTube Video page & select "Save Page As". It then comes up with a pane where one can save it to & I just save it to the desktop.

The saved file has the exact same Title when saved as the original YouTube video. However, when opening it, it opens up a new YouTube page but it is not the same video but something completely different.

Please can someone please help me sort this as so far I have saved to my desktop around 50 medical videos but all of open with the same other page on something completely different - I would be extremely grateful!

Many Thanks!

 

[risswex]

Did you try Airy or YTD Video Downloader? You can download videos directly in MP4 format to your desktop.

 

[Ruggy]

Are you trying to download them or just the link to the video?
You seem to be saving the entire page which will include all the links on the side etc.

To just save the link for the one video you want to watch, go to the title bar at the top of the page when it's working select it and copy it.
You select it by just clicking on it once (anywhere in the box) and you copy it by holding down the command key and at the same time pressing 'C' (Command+C)
Then you go to a page where you want to save it. I don't think you can save it to the Desktop it needs to be in a file I think. You can save it to a file and then save the file to the desktop for sure though.
You can choose a page in your word processor, Notes, or a new email message works very well (save it as a draft by trying to exit Macmail and it will ask you if you want to save it. But if you have a plain text email agent it won't save it as a link. It must be rich text- which it is if it displays links and images) It works extremely well for this.
You then paste the link by clicking on the page, holding down Command and pressing V at the same time (Command+V)
When you've pasted the link, press the 'Enter' command which activates it as a link and takes you to the next line
You can do the same thing over and over again copying a link then pasting it to the next line until you have a page of links in whatever program you prefer.
Notes is convenient but I find it's very easy to delete them by accident so be careful of that.

 

[BigBlur]

The "Save As" or "Save Page As" only saves the HTML; it does not save the video nor does it go to the actual page on YouTube.

If you're wanting to download the video, you'll need to use some 3rd-party tool as risswex mentioned.

If you're wanting to save a shortcut to the YouTube video on your desktop, then highlight/select the URL in Safari's address bar and drag that to your desktop. (Or just create bookmarks within Safari.)

 

[cateye]

Create a playlist in YouTube. Save video to that playlist. Done.

Or if that feels too existentially difficult, just like the video. All liked videos are automatically saved in a canonical playlist called (wait for it) “Liked Videos”