Have you ever been browsing YouTube and seen something that you absolutely had to have? Not that were condoning the theft of intellectual property, but if this has ever happened to you, then we have your solution. What does it take? All you have to do is remove a few letters from the URL and add two others in their place.
Need the example? Here you go. Lets say that youre watching an Eminem video from Vevos section on YouTube. Note the URL:
Now, pay attention to the www. (or http://www. if youre not using Chrome). Highlight that section of the url and replace that with nt. What you should be left with is an address bar that looks like this:
Now, press enter. You should start seeing a direct download of the MP4 file for that video. Play it back with any compatible player and youre viewing the exact same thing that youd see on YouTube. Granted, it appears to download the file that is related to the specific URL, so if youre viewing a 320 version and would like the 1080, youll need to find the URL for the 1080 video.
Taking a look at the domain for ntyoutube.com, there is a rather nondescript bit of text that doesnt tell us much more than we already know. Its registered to a gentleman named Scott Jackson (who links himself in the text) and it seems that he might have just stumbled onto the process:
I have no idea what this does. I just typed random characters into TextMate for a little while. Apparently, i! f you ad d nt to the start of a YouTube video URL, youll get an mp4 version of the video. I dont know.
Weve no doubt that this will disappear soon, but if you have an explanation in the mean time, wed love to hear it in the comments.
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