How
to Download YouTube Videos on Mac
On
YouTube you may probably find any video you may think of. And it may
also happen you need this video to be available for you anytime
anywhere even when no Internet connection is available. And sometimes
videos are removed from YouTube for various reasons. So if you found
a perfect video and want to keep it what you need is a YouTube
downloader for Mac.
There are several
ways to save YouTube videos to your computer. It may be an add-on for
your browser, some online service, or YouTube downloader Mac app.
Here is how to
download YouTube videos Mac guide for you:
Download
video from YouTube with Safari browser.
Open the page
with the video in your Safari browser and play it. Press
Command-Option-A to open Safari "Activity" window. You'll
see the name of the video there with "youtube" ending. Find
the entry of several Megabytes that is loading and
option-double-click it to download it as FLV file. This is a great
method, however it takes time to process video completely and
unfortunately it doesn't work for Safari 6.
Download
videos from YouTube with online services
Various online
services promise to save videos from YouTube to your computer. Simply
alter the video link and after that web browser will parse it to make
it possible saving the video to your hard drive. There is a
disadvantage though: lots of pop-up ads, no visualization of
downloading progress, and sometimes those services just don't work
for no obvious reason.
Standalone YouTube
downloader Mac OS X
I'll take Airy YouTube downloader as an
example. Because it's tiny, light and super easy to use. Amazing how
easy it is to download videos with this Mac YouTube downloader -
simply enter the link, choose format and resolution, click
"Download". Airy can download MP4, WebM, FLV, and 3GP file
types.
As an added bonus you can actually
download MP3 files from YouTube with Airy when you don't want the
video, but only the sound. For that simply choose MP3 type from
drop-down list.
Airy costs $19.95,
but allows first 5 downloads for free.
Download Airy here: http://mac.eltima.com/youtube-downloader-mac.html