/tags/youtube/Recent content in YouTube on ShrimpWorksHugoen-gbFri, 27 Oct 2006 21:52:42 +0000/2006/10/27/mytube-web-based-youtube-downloader/Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:52:42 +0000/2006/10/27/mytube-web-based-youtube-downloader/<p>Heh, I guess there are already plenty of tools out there which do this sort of thing already (never seen them personally, but then I&rsquo;ve never looked either, heh), but this only took me half an evening to throw together anyway.</p> <p>Basically, it&rsquo;s a Python (uses <a href="http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/">youtube-dl</a>) and PHP-powered web-based YouTube video downloader and converter, you just stick in the URL to a YouTube clip you want to save, and it will download it and offer it for download as an MPEG which you can save on your PC and play in all it&rsquo;s low-quality glory whenever you want.</p>