{"id":17222,"date":"2014-02-19T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=17222"},"modified":"2015-11-30T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:49:09","slug":"reader-feedback-mediastorm-guide-to-downloading-from-youtube-and-vimeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/19\/reader-feedback-mediastorm-guide-to-downloading-from-youtube-and-vimeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader Feedback: MediaStorm Guide to Downloading from YouTube and Vimeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">I received some important feedback regarding my post from several weeks ago,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/mediastorm-guide-to-downloading-from-youtube-and-vimeo\/\" target=\"_blank\">MediaStorm Guide to Downloading from YouTube and Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJY\u201d writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/keepvid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KeepVid<\/a> actually doesn\u2019t work great on Mavericks because it has Java disabled\/uninstalled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is true.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Because Java has been used to launch attacks on Macs in the past, Apple decide to not pre-install it on OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). You can still download the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL1572\" target=\"_blank\">software<\/a> but for security reasons you may choose not to.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fortunately, when it comes to downloading videos, there are a plethora of alternatives to keepvid.com.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">We received recommendations for the free\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtubeconvert.cc\" target=\"_blank\">ClipConverter<\/a> as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macxdvd.com\/free-youtube-video-downloader-mac\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacX YouTube Downloader<\/a>. A tutorial for the latter can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XwZRmODlYuo\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My good pal\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/contributor\/leandro-badalotti\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Leandro Badalotti<\/a> suggests the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.torchbrowser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Torch Browser<\/a>, which allows for downloads from more sites than just YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what alternatives you\u2019ve found in the comments below and thanks, as always, for the feedback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received some important feedback regarding my post from several weeks ago,\u00a0MediaStorm Guide to Downloading from YouTube and Vimeo. \u201cJY\u201d writes, \u201cKeepVid actually doesn\u2019t work great on Mavericks because it has Java disabled\/uninstalled.\u201d This is true. Because Java has been used to launch attacks on Macs in the past, Apple decide to not pre-install it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[1666,1719,1664,66,1701,1551],"class_list":["post-17222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-download","tag-java","tag-software","tag-video","tag-vimeo","tag-youtube","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}