“For every Mac user who’s browsed the web and wanted to collect and save videos from YouTube, Vimeo or hundreds of other sites, here’s the way to do it right,” Ron McElfresh reports for McSolo.
“The app you need is called Downie,” McElfresh reports. “It downloads videos from websites, including YouTube and over three hundred other video centric sites. This app is best of class.”
“Great Mac apps have a balance of usability and functionality. In other words, easy to use, modest learning curve, but with most of the additional features you may want or need within easy reach; a click or two,” McElfresh reports. “That’s Downie.”
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No link to download. When you do find the Downie site, you click on Download and get a zip/unzip app, but not Downie.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/49423/downie
I count two links to Downie. Get some Google Glass, dude.
Great app, BTW.
I’ve been using it for quite a while. We have an 86kB download speed at home, so I use Downie to snag videos at work and put them on a flash drive to take with me. I had been using iTubeX, but it became too unstable and the license server regularly forgets who you are. Downie works flawlessly and can even get 1080 videos from YouTube.
I miss the good ol Activity option in Safari. I just opened that, seen which one was still downloading and it was usually the video and then simply copy and past the address into the download menu and it would download the video then. Didn’t always work, but usually did. Miss having that activity option!
Exactly
You can still grab using web inspector in Safari- just not very convenient.
Have never been able to get a video from web inspector, pictures are easy but have never been able to get a video.
Yes!!! Why did they take that away. That was an awesomely easy way to download porn.
Its not free though it is? Just a trial.
If you just want YouTube, try http://www.clipconverter.cc
It’s free and an online service so you don’t have to install any software.
However, I’m pretty impressed with Downie’s ability to work with other sites. If you have this need, it’s well worth the $10.
Downie: $10 shareware.
OR, install the FREE (donation ware) add-on for Firefox,
Video Download Helper
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
I’ve been using it for years. It’s constantly updated. It rarely fails. I like it. 😀
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Or install ‘Click To Flash’, right click on the video and select ‘Download Video’
Done!
Hmm. I have Click to Flash installed, and the option to show Download in the menu enabled, but I’m not seeing it as a menu option when right clicking on the video in various pages (YouTube, or YouTube videos all show the YouTube contextual menu) like http://macdailynews.com/2014/04/17/apple-carplay-hands-on-with-video/
Can you share a page where you are seeing it so I can see if I see it there?
Works just fine for me
I have a great solution to download all videos for Mac – http://paprika-downloader.com/
It saves videos in FLV, MP3 and MP4 formats.