Hi Maarten, For casual use, I suggest using the PwnYouTube bookmarklet: http://deturl.com/bookmarklet-to-directly-download-videos-from-youtube.asp Note that other bookmarklets are currently broken due to recent YouTube design changes. I don't have experience with YouTube's API, but JavaScript execution seems to be the way to go. Sincerely, George On Sat, May 7, 2011 7:34 am, Maarten Dammers wrote: > Hi video people, > > Does anyone have any experience with downloading Youtube clips? Maybe > using the Youtube Api? Would be nice to offer an automated tool to > upload a Youtube clip to Commons. For example > http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse contains quite some interesting > (public domain) clips like > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:President_Obama_on… > > Maarten > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikivideo-l mailing list > Wikivideo-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l >