Friday 3 April 2009

Saving YouTube videos from the right-click context menu (IE only)

Ever wanted to download a video from the YouTube webpage? This is how you can do it.

1. Open Notepad and copy and paste the following to it:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\Download using KeepVid]
@="c:\\keepvid.htm"
"Contexts"=dword:00000033

2. Save it as KeepVid.reg (name it anything, but keep the .reg extension)

3. Open a new Notepad and copy and paste the following to it:

<html>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
external.menuArguments.location = 'http://keepvid.com/?url='+ external.menuArguments.location.href;
</SCRIPT>
</html>

4. Save it as keepvid.htm in C:\. (NOTE: The saved file name and path has to match the light blue text in Step 1)

5. The final Step would be to import the .reg file created in Step 2 to the registry. Double click the .reg file and on the confirmation window, click "Yes" to proceed to add the entries to the registry.

6. Now, close all opemn IE windows and re-open a new IE window.

7. Open up a YouTube video link. When you right click the page, you should see the entry "Download using KeepVid". Click on this and it should launch a page with a download link for the YouTube video.