best youtube downloader for googlechrome

quagmire

Allllright !
I use this: YouTube downloader: Free YouTube Download manager

Its not a plugin, I just paste all the interesting links that I get, and download them through the night.

+1.

I use it always after I disabled Java 'coz of the security issue.

But occasionally some downloaded videos stop playing after a certain point.
 

RBX

In the zone
what?

IDM downloads the whole video.

except the advert videos at the beginning. are you talking about that?

No. If I'm 1 minute into the video, and then I select to download, often that starting 1 minute would be missing.
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
^^how?only thing it uses a bit much is ram(~150mb) as it uses java & i have used it on an intel atom 2gb ram win 7 system.only thing i found a bit inconvenient is that it takes ~1min after launching to load completely & be fully functional.
 

ithehappy

Human Spambot
I have noticed one thing with Chrome and IDM integration. Say you are watching a YouTube video at 480p, given our beautiful speeds that's what most people select anyway, with Chrome, if you click on that 'download this video' option then IDM only downloads the video at 480p, but other options are not given, like 720p, 1080p etc. But with Firefox, clicking on that same option gives you all the available resolutions of the video, and then you can download the one you like. But with Chrome, if you are watching a video at 480p and wanna download it at 720p then you are forced to change the quality in YouTube's video box and then click on IDM panel to download the same res. I can't quite figure it out, why it happens like that, it's really irritating to say the least, especially for me who downloads lot of videos from YT, and I always download 1080p and watch at 480p, so it does become a PITA.

If anyone figured out any solution kindly input here.

Hope I am not hijacking this topic :|
 

Neuron

Electronic.
Torch browser seems to be a good choice if you don't want to copy and paste links. But I think i'll use JDownloader from now on. Pretty much like a keepvid client.
 

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
^^how?only thing it uses a bit much is ram(~150mb) as it uses java & i have used it on an intel atom 2gb ram win 7 system.only thing i found a bit inconvenient is that it takes ~1min after launching to load completely & be fully functional.

The pc i'm using has 1 GB ram out of which ~370 MB is used by the OS (win 7) after startup. :(
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
in that case use jdownloader only when required.1gb ram is simply too low for win 7.you can save some ram by first making a list of youtube links to dl using browser then exit browser & copy paste those links to jdownloader link check & select resolutions you want to dl.
 

anirbandd

Conversation Architect
I have noticed one thing with Chrome and IDM integration. Say you are watching a YouTube video at 480p, given our beautiful speeds that's what most people select anyway, with Chrome, if you click on that 'download this video' option then IDM only downloads the video at 480p, but other options are not given, like 720p, 1080p etc. But with Firefox, clicking on that same option gives you all the available resolutions of the video, and then you can download the one you like. But with Chrome, if you are watching a video at 480p and wanna download it at 720p then you are forced to change the quality in YouTube's video box and then click on IDM panel to download the same res. I can't quite figure it out, why it happens like that, it's really irritating to say the least, especially for me who downloads lot of videos from YT, and I always download 1080p and watch at 480p, so it does become a PITA.

If anyone figured out any solution kindly input here.

Hope I am not hijacking this topic :|

not here..

i get all res download options irrespective of the browser
[NOT iexplore :p]

try reinstalling the latest version of IDM.
 
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andy_65_in

Padawan
please tell me about some software FINALLYwhich i should download for utube videos-i need the videos to download cartoons for my kids,THANKS 2 everyone
 

Neuron

Electronic.
I've been using jdownloader for a while and seems like it's heavily bugged. Sometimes it takes too much time to start a download or wont download at all. Also it has problems resuming downloads that have been paused. Plus, as a download manager it's not capturing links from chrome. I am switching to orbit+keepvid combo.
 

whitestar_999

Super Moderator
Staff member
which version of jdownloader & java are you using?sometimes there may be issues because of java version.in any case there are 2 versions of jdownloader:stable 1.9x & beta 2.x.try both as even beta is quite stable.
 

TheFallenLord

Journeyman
I don't know if it has already been suggested in this thread but has anybody given EagleGet a try? I'm using it since last few months and it works flawlessly with both Chrome and Firefox.
 

aaruni

The Linux Guy
try out youtube-dl . Its a python script (sudo apt-get install youtube-dl in ubuntu/deb). I'm sure it works in windows as well. Google how to make it work.

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Youtube-dl exe available at official site *youtube-dl.org/
 
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