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How to rip YouTube videos to your computer using UnPlug

UPDATE: This still is fine for 2.0.0.x, but UnPlug does not run properly on Firefox 3 and later, so if you’re on 3.0, this unfortunately will not work.

Firefox extension UnPlug is a very useful tool for extracting embedded video from all sorts of websites.

It can be a bit alien to work out how to use at first though, so I’ve put together a quick video of just over a minute that walks you through the process. It assumes you’ve already got UnPlug installed and loaded into Firefox.

This post was written by Peter on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 17:23. Filed under Screencasts, Tutorials.

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2 Comments

  1. Allan Johns wrote:

    Hi Peter.I’ve done everything in your video and the videos download but without sound.Do you have any suggestions?
    many thanks.
    Allan

    Friday, April 18, 2008 at 5:14 pm | Permalink | Posted in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Windows XP
  2. Peter wrote:

    Hey Allan,

    What program are you using to play back the files? Some applications might not correctly pick up the audio track.

    I can confirm that VLC works for me on videos ripped in this way.

    Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 10:03 pm | Permalink | Posted in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 on Mac OS X

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