How to download flash (streaming) videos from sites like youtube, dailymotion, vimeo, etc.?

I would recommend ClipGrab, it downloads videos from many popular video sites including:

• YouTube
• Clipfish
• College Humor
• Daily Motion
• MyVideo
• MySpass
• Sevenload
• Tudou
• Vimeo

It also allows you to transcode the video into multiple formats including audio formats such as mp3 and ogg vorbis.

You can install it from the ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa PPA.

CClive is a command line application that downloads videos from a number of sites including youtube and dailymotion. If you run:

cclive url1 url2 url3 ...

cclive will download the videos to the current working directory.

See man cclive for details of more advanced options.

Abby is a GUI frontend for cclive. It seems from the google code page that the development is inactive and I can't get it to work in Maverick. I remember using it in Lucid and it worked OK.

I recall having problems with cclive and abby when I was using it on Lucid for downloading youtube videos. This is because youtube changed their implementation (probably to stop downloaders like cclive) and the version of cclive in the repositories wasn't up to date enough to work. There were similar problems with youtube-dl. A solution to this is to install a newer version from source or find a ppa of the newer version.

The commandline tool youtube-dl can download videos from YouTube, dailymotion and some other sites.

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

There is also a Totem plugin to look at Youtube videos.