Software portals are saturated with so called ‘Youtube downloaders’ which let you download videos off Youtube and other similar sites like DailyMotion, Metacafe and Spike (previously known as iFilm), so much that it is hard to pick which one does its job perfectly because they all do the same thing. Differentiating which one is better has boiled onto whether you could actually download sites from their ‘supported list of sites’ or it just returns an error.
I recently talked about another Firefox Addon called UnPlug which was quite an impressive Addon to say the least but I was just browsing through which is the ‘ultimate’ application or Addon which does the job best and it turns out DownloadHelper is THE best.
Once you install the Addon the only glimpse of the Addon is a ‘grayed’ button on the navigation bar next to the address bar which basically gets ‘colored’ and animates when it detects a video (you can decide if it animates or just stays static but I think the animation is pretty cool) and believe me it detects ANY video. Once it starts animating all you have to do is click on the arrow on the right of the button and download it! It’s as simple as that.
Clicking the button itself brings up a tiny window complete with all supported sites including the rating, the number of comments for the site submitted by users of the Addon and something called ‘Interest’ but I think it would save them quite a bit of coding and give users a bigger picture if they just say ‘all sites supported’!
One drawback I found is that it does not integrate into any download manager which can make things a bit ‘slow’ but there’s always a solution. You’ll have to control + click the download link which would just copy the link to the clipboard and you can add the URL from there to your favorite download manager.
Finally, IE and Opera users you might want to install Firefox just to use this Addon, believe me you don’t know what you are missing!
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I am also searching for the same kind of downloader!!! Thanks for sharing info.
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What about the key, I mean the code to register Download helper?
Thanks
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it doesnt need a key, its free, doesnt need to be registered.
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you need a key to register the converter
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thanks for this im always looking for cool tools to use.
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Hi!
You wrote it doesn’t need to be registered but if you wan’t to use the converter part of the program, what allows you to get the files in choosen formats you must register on their website i can’t remember exactly but I guess for 18 or 25 euros or $. So my post aim to get some answer for this probleme, how can I use all of the services of this prog. THX best regards.
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oh i wasnt aware as i dont use the app for the converter, just to grab the videos..i would recommend “format factory” to convert your videos..
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from what I can tell, you CAN convert files… however, it’s true that you need the registration in order to convert without the watermark… And it’s a pretty obvious watermark, though the conversion is done well.
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if you are looking to convert the files though, you can use format factory instead, its totally free and converts most video, audio and picture formats
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Its a bit slow and If we have to copy the link in the end than what exactly is the advantage of this add on
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it integrates perfectly with any download manager and works for any video site, and the latest version offers more functionality with a button next to the video with the option to download using FF’s built in browser or Flashgot which would mean proper download manager support.
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it can also restore the download and its very small size as compare to other downloa
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