It is called 'Bulk YouTube Video Downloader' or BYTubeD in short. In the above question I was looking for one such Firefox add-on.

This could be useful if one would like to download the video using a command-line tool such as 'wget' for example ( instead of Firefox's own download facility ).

There are many Firefox add-ons that allow a user to download a YouTube video for off-line viewing at a later time.īut none seem to allow the user to actually obtain / extract the YouTube URL for the video. I've tried several YouTube downloaders for Firefox and they all want to take over the download themselves which of course will not work.Īlso any links you get from the add-ons I tried ( some offer 'Copy Link' options ) are also useless for my intended purpose.Īll I need is the link to pass on to a command-line tool such 'curl' or 'wget'.Īs usual, thanks in advance for any feedback provided I intend to pass this as a command-line argument to 'wget' running on a remote server which can then download the video.I know this method works, since I have indeed managed to extract the link once or twice and use the 'wget' command on the remote server to get it for me. I am after a Mozilla add-on or program which would allow me to retrieve only the direct URL to a video on YouTube. Proxy or VPN are next to unusable for watching or downloading ( the data rates are throttled as soon as the video or download begin ). We have a country-wide ban on, which means that you can't watch or download YouTube content even educational stuff or documentaries.

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