Youtube claims that private videos can only be seen by your account and by those accounts that you shared it with. This is however not true at all, there is an easy way to download private videos from Youtube without any problems at all. Let me first explain how a private video looks like and how you are going to find them.
A private video displays a red message when you open it in Youtube reading “This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender’s friend request.” Take a look at private video for an example. You can search Google for the phrase “This is a private movie” to find more private movies, some really interesting ones if you ask me..
The trick to download those private movies is simple. We use a cache to access those videos. The general url of the cache is cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id= and all you need to do is to add the video id of the youtube video behind it.
You do get a download prompt afterwards and can download the video to your hard drive. This is probably the only flaw in this method, there is no way to view the video on site. Should not be a big problem though.
Ryan from Cybernet News created a nice bookmarklet that simply prompts for an Youtube id which means that you do not have to copy and paste the cache url all the time. Right-click the bookmarklet and save it to your favorites, then click on it whenever you want to download a private video.
bookmarklet
via: Cybernet News
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doesn’t work anymore. i think it’s because youtube just changed their coding or something. i was really hoping this would work, too. anybody have another way to get around the private vid problem?
correction. it works. for some reason it didn’t work for me at first. might be something to keep an eye on, though.
Attention! Youtube I believe youtube’s recent site update must have rendered this cached private video download url link useless. Just about a week ago, I tried to download numerous videos with the cache url link provided and also tried other various youtube video downloading sites claiming to download private videos, but no dice I get the same error. Now I have to wait until someone finds loop hole in youtubes system. Time to do some research. Well it was great while it lasted. Kudos to whoever discovered or made the url link by the way.
You are all very pathetic. Obviously, none of you have anything better to do than pry into other people’s private lives.
aarcher you idiot, some people looking at this will be developers trying to get around a flaw in the google API.
Didn’t work for me.
doesn’t work anymore.
I don´t want a privat video because I want to see someones privat things!
It´s because I´m in the video my freind recorded and he is not showing it to me!