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[Anthony A]

I am looking for a program that will detect all video on a page and let you download it to your machine. I know there are User JavaScript and addons for the browsers that will do this for Flash or specific sites like You Tube but I would like something that will detect all types of video on any site I visit and provide the option to download it. Any suggestions?

[Corona]

If such a thing exists I bet you'll have to pay for it.

[hazelnut]

Mostly seem to be like this

http://www.pqdvd.com...ideos-tool.html

[Anthony A]

Corona, on Aug 23 2008, 01:11 PM, said:

If such a thing exists I bet you'll have to pay for it.

Maybe.

I am looking at this right now for FF. https://addons.mozil...efox/addon/3006

Some download managers I have been looking at can detect video and give the option to download to.

[Corona]

I've seen that add-on before. But I have no need to download videos.

[Anthony A]

hazelnut, on Aug 23 2008, 01:39 PM, said:

Mostly seem to be like this

http://www.pqdvd.com...ideos-tool.html

Thats interesting. Can that one download Quicktime Videos to?

Says free download but than there is purchase info there to.

[Talldog9]

Downloadhelper for firefox is the only one I've ever needed. It works great and several of it's detection methods are configurable in terms of what formats are detected. Many common ones are already entered, but you may want to add more, I did.
Read the faq
http://www.downloadhelper.net/faq.php

[Andavari]

Anthony A, on Aug 23 2008, 11:42 AM, said:

Some download managers I have been looking at can detect video and give the option to download to.

Some download managers can download a whole site, or anything on it. But, many sites have protection against that and consider it abuse and may block your IP address.

[tomcatonnet99]

Take caution to what Andavari has to say about such software.......... but just to answer your question; you might want to try (with descretion) Pimpfish downloader ( sorry you'll have to google it )

[Whiteshark]

Maxthon 2 Browser have a built-in feature for this, called "File Sniffer". Browsing a webpage containing a video an icon
show up on the address bar. Click it to get the movie URL, or to download the file using the built-in Download Manager.

[Anthony A]

Whiteshark, on Aug 24 2008, 02:14 PM, said:

Maxthon 2 Browser have a built-in feature for this, called "File Sniffer". Browsing a webpage containing a video an icon
show up on the address bar. Click it to get the movie URL, or to download the file using the built-in Download Manager.

That icon shows up very inconsistently. I can't get it to detect Quicktime video either.

[Talldog9]

Talldog9, on Aug 24 2008, 04:24 AM, said:

Downloadhelper for firefox is the only one I've ever needed. It works great and several of it's detection methods are configurable in terms of what formats are detected. Many common ones are already entered, but you may want to add more, I did. Read the faq http://www.downloadhelper.net/faq.php

BTW don't use the converter, it's not free.

Not really ff3 compatible yet is Unplug which is good to have as a backup if for some reason Downloadhelper fails.