How-To: Download embedded videos
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Please note that the following will only work for Firefox users.
Have you ever found yourself watching an embedded video within a website? More importantly, have you ever found yourself wondering how to download that same video to keep locally for later viewing? Follow these easy steps and you’ll have the ability to download embedded movie files from your ‘favorite’ websites (poon).
- First, install the GreaseMonkey Firefox extension from here.
This extension allows users to “customize” websites they visit on the
fly with special scripts. After installing, restart your Firefox
browser. After the restart, go up to Tools in the menu bar. You
should now have the following menu options: “Install user script”,
“Manage user scripts”, and “User script command”. - Next, we have to install the GreaseMonkey user scripts. You can find a growing list of scripts here. To download embedded movies, you’ll want to install the Unembed
script. Click on the Unembed link. Doing so will open a page with what
appears to be plain text (the actual script code). Go to Tools > Install user script. A “Install user script” window will pop up. Click OK to install. - Finally,
navigate to a website with an embedded video file. After installing the
GreaseMonkey Unembed script, you should now see a [download] link at
the bottom of the movie file allowing you to save the file locally on
your own computer.
You have now seen first hand the power of GreaseMonkey user scripts. If you checked the script site, you most likely noticed the many choices to improve your browsing experience. Check back often, the options for user submitted scripts grows each day. A few of the scripts that I use are: [Google About.com remover], [Gmail: Adding persistent searches], and [Gmail: Mailto links to Gmail compose].
