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How to Add YouTube Video Search Engine in Google Chrome

AZ — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:00:15 +0000

Another cool feature of Google Chrome is that you can add or edit Search Engines on Google Chrome in very simple and easy steps. Today i will tell you how to add YouTube Video Search Engine to Google Chrome.

Here we are with the steps you would follow to add YouTube Search Engine:

1 – Click The Tool button and then select Option.
2 – Click the Basics tab.
3 – Click the Manage button in the Default search section. The Search Engines dialog box opens.

There is another simple,easy and quick way to open Search Engine dialog box.

Just right-click the web address area on the address box and select Edit search engines to open the Search Engines dialog box. Simple isn’t it?

To add a new search Engine click Add button on Search Engine Dialog Box and enter the following options.

Name : YouTube
Keyword : Youtube
URL : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s

Thats it. YouTube video search engine has been added to your google chrome.

One more thing if you want to make YouTube search engine your Default search engine then select YouTube in Search Engine dialog box and press Make Default button and then close the dialog box by clicking on close button.

Download YouTube Videos in Chrome

AZ — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:34:59 +0000

After having one of those ‘Download Video from YouTube’ sites many moons ago, i thought i’d check the code and see what could be done for Chrome as yes it can be done.

Create a new bookmark and call it “Download YouTube” or something you will remember, then for the address field paste:

Quote:

javascript:window.location.href = ‘http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=’ + swfArgs['video_id']+ “&l=” + swfArgs['l'] + “&sk=” + swfArgs['sk'] + ‘&fmt_map’ + swfArgs['fmt_map'] + ‘&t=’ + swfArgs['t'];

Then save your bookmark. Next go to the YouTube video you want to download, when it starts playing click your “Download YouTube” bookmark and you will see the .flv start to download in Chrome’s download status bar.

Download Youtube Videos in MP4
With a bit of tinkering around with the above code, also downloading the video in MP4 is possible.

Same as above, create a new bookmark (It’s probably best to name the above Download YouTube in FLV and then name this one Download YouTube in MP4) then add the following code in the address field:

Quote:

javascript:window.location.href = ‘http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=’ + swfArgs['video_id']+ “&fmt=18″ + “&l=” + swfArgs['l'] + “&sk=” + swfArgs['sk'] + ‘&fmt_map’ + swfArgs['fmt_map'] + ‘&t=’ + swfArgs['t'];

Save then use the same way as the above.