Tool To Download Videos From Many Websites

by on May 9, 2009 | 1 comment

You have probably seen many articles and tips on this site about downloading videos from YouTube, however if you want to download from other sites a tool you need to check out is xVideoServiceThief.

This open source tool allows you to download from (at the time of writing) 55 popular websites which use embedded videos. Additionally, xVideoServiceThief boasts the following features:

  • Convert the downloaded videos to Mpeg, DivX, etc.
  • Simultaneous downloads!: Download more than one video at same time
  • Automatic Updates! keep the xVideoServiceThief updated automatically (to add/update support for new sites)

If you like to keep videos on your hard drive, this tool is ideal because you don’t have to worry about going into your browser cache and renaming files, etc, etc. It is straightforward and completely free.

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  1. Floyd Bufkin / May 9, 2009

    I use an extension for Firefox named “Download Helper”. Check it out.
    http://www.downloadhelper.net/index.php

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