How to download streaming videos using Apple Safari!
March 22nd, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 1099 times, 37 so far today
How to download streaming videos using Apple Safari!
Apple Safari web browser is now available for both Mac OS X and Windows OS.
This web browser application from Apple has a handy feature named Activity which can be used to download streaming videos online.
Let’s try downloading the streaming video hosted on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmYVRIpu2w
Just load the link in Apple Safari web browser.
As soon as the video start loading, go to Windows > Activity.
You would see the various elements being downloaded in the Activity window. Just double click on the video link and you would get the option to download the video to your hard disk!
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January 10th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I just tried Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista and this method does not work for youtube. This is the first time I’ve tried Safari, so I have no idea whether it ever worked. Clicking Windows > Activity does open the Activity window but when I double-click on the youtube video, a new “theatre-style” window opens which plays the video with no controls. This means no option to download, no File-Save as (it is greyed out) and no right-mouse click options. In fact the video plays without me being able to stop it – have to close the window. I guess Youtube have changed their website behaviour to prevent this working.
Also after I used Safari to open two or three youtube windows, it invariably hangs and has to be terminated.
I tried this with a few Betty Boop videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsDNMf_EGNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYn27ilwSkk
I have noticed that some months ago I used to be able to recover complete youtube videos from Firefox’s cache, but that now only the first 32 seconds are recoverable.
regards, 84user
June 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
IT WORKS!!!! Yay!
July 11th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I have been using the Activity to download video’s and other media for a very long time. However, I just got the new Safari 4.x and am saddened that Activity no longer functions in that way. Double-click the media link in Activity using Safari 4, and you will only re-load the file in your browser. No option for a download. That’s sad.
July 11th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
AHA! I figured it out. Under Safari version 4, you don’t simply double-click the link in “Activity”, but rather you have to Option click. Might be Option-double click. But watching your downloads, that works! Check it out and give it a try.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am
OMG i've been trying out video grabbers and websites that offers video grabbing and none of them helped me until this site came along and now i got the videos i wanted my god thank God i had safari and thank you for your help, 3 hours is not wasted yay!
Hopefully i can ask more questions here if i need any help, thanks again!