Well with summer fast aproaching and people being on the go and vacationing. People want to have there favorite videos on the go. While this won’t help if you want to keep update on a podcast automatically. It will help for those really cool videos or that one show you missed. What you need to do is first go and get Google Chrome. This site leads to the latest Dev build Chrome update. (3.0.187.1).

First of all let me explain to you why Chrome is better then all the other broswers. Yes, FireFox 3 has plug-ins and other cool stuff but so does Google Chrome. There are about 4 ‘extensions’ (Chrome’s plugins) for Chrome right now and while that number maybe seem inferiour to FireFox’s thousands, just remeber extensions where only just enable in this build. Next is the speed, Chrome is by far the fastest broswer you can get. Only Second to Safari which is in its 4 iteration. Last reason is the reason why you are here. Youtube videos made easy.

You do not need to download anything, install, or do much. All you have to do is run Chrome. Right click in the Book Mark Bar, Creat a New Page, and enter this in the URL (Name it whatever you fancy.):

javascript:if(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)){document.location.href=’http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=18&video_id=’+swfArgs['video_id']+’&t=’+swfArgs['t']}

Now go to a youtube and click the new “bookmarklet” on a page with a video. You should see a download starting and thats the video. It will be in Mp4 format. Which iTunes can convert.

There is a way to download HQ videos, but I will need to experiment for a little bit. I will update as soon as get it. This may work in FireFox 3 to. But I am not sure, nor am I willing to install it to try out. So let me know if it works there too, or if there is a plug-in for it.

Well Surprise I figured out how to get HQ videos:

javascript:if(document.location.href.match(/http:\/\/[a-zA-Z\.]*youtube\.com\/watch/)){document.location.href=’http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=22&video_id=’+swfArgs['video_id']+’&t=’+swfArgs['t']}

Now if you want to know how I did it here it is. While I am no genious and by no means did I come up with this Javascript code, I am in on the know how and inner workings of it.  &fmt=22 this part of the code is what is implemented in all HQ videos automatically by youtube. When you click HQ it just selects a link with &fmt=22 at the end. This part of the code is the quality level. It Enalbes Stereo or even Souround Sound where avalible. You can place this in front of any HQ enable link yourself or even some without.  Now thats pretty much it. Just remeber to to hit HQ and then the bookmarklet for the HQ download.

If you have any questions let me know in a comment. I will reply ASAP.