There are plenty of ways to download videos from services such as YouTube to your hard-drive – ranging from command line foo & dedicated desktop applications, down to a simple bit of file-browsing.
ClipGrab is another method of the ‘app’ variety. It allows you to download videos from popular sites like YouTube to your hard-drive but adds in in the ability to convert them to popular media formats, including audio only, as well; no need for separate tools.
“With ClipGrab the download of online videos is a breeze.”
What makes the tool particularly attractive against competing methods is the look of the application – clean and easy to understand – and the cross-platform factor. If you use OS X or Windows alongside Ubuntu and want to maintain a degree of familiarity in applications between them then ClibGrab is worth considering.
Supported sites
- YouTube
- Clipfish
- College Humor
- Daily Motion
- MyVideo
- MySpass
- Sevenload
- Tudou
- Vimeo
Download & Install
You won’t be surprised to learn that ClipGrab has a PPA, right? Builds are available for Jaunty users through to Natty testers (although Natty packages are currently having dependency issues).
Add ‘ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa’ to your Software Sources or install using the following terminal commands: -
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install clipgrab
Video downloaded with ClibGrab