Here is a tricky way to download videos from youtube.
Step 1: Go to www.youtube.com and search for your video.

Step 2: Locate the URL of your video. the url will be like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86UaSzZEsf4 .

Step 3: Now copy the code used to represent the video. In this example the code is 86UaSzZEsf4 .Let's represent this as xxxxxxxxxxx.

Step 4: Now view the source of this page(View-->Source in Internet Explorer and View-->Page Source in FireFox) and search(Ctrl+F or Edit) for this code(xxxxxxxxxxx) in the source.

Step 5: Search until you find a lengthy code like this- 86UaSzZEsf4&l=200&t=OEgsToPDskIB57xZayA06IyuAXs6TqUL&s. Even if you can't find the string completely, search for &l=yyy,where yyy represents a number and &t=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Step 6: Copy this code and append it to the following URL http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=

Step 7: Now the URL looks like http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=xxxxxxxxxxx&l=yyy&t=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz&s
Copy and Paste this URL in the address bar of your browser. Now hit 'Enter' and a 'Save' dialog box will appear. Click on 'Save' to save your video.

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