Grabbing viral video

Have you ever been watching a video on Google Video, or YouTube, or somewhere and wanted to snag yourself a copy of the video? Maybe you want it because you want watch it again later and don’t want to lose the URL. Maybe you want to convert it to some other video format for another use. Maybe you want to get a copy before the lawyers shut it down. Maybe you just want a local copy that will run really fast.

Well, if the video is on any of the sites listed below there is a very easy solution, just pop over to KeepVid.com. I’ve just used this to pull down local copies of that Alan Moore interview I ran on the weekend, as well as another dozen or so things I’ve had bookmarked. Works great.

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This work by Chris McLaren is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada.