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johnfowles · 11-16-2009, 02:39 PM

Further to my earlier mini tutorial on downloading videos from youtube .I have been contacted by PM by a damsel in distress, indeed I suspect she is verily on the "brink" of despair because my methods would not help her to save the three GL music videos as embedded in PeeWee's MySpace page at:-
http://www.myspace.com/peeweecharles
Good point I thought and I seemed to recall reading of a method or program to do the same for myspace videos as countless programs do for youtube
I know that somewhere I have the three videos squirelled away but could not remember either where or even how I saved them, so as is my want I googled. The obvious leading result was that there is indeed a Firefox browser plug in and conveniently I have Firefox installed on my Ferrari notebook (plus I was evaluating Google's shiny Chrome browser) for those occasions when Internet Explorer is imminently going to explode.However I wasted a full 30 minutes unsuccesfully trying to grab that plug in.
Fed up I naturally regoogled and spotted
http://http://www.downloadtoolz.com/myspace/
from where you can download the freeware program myspace video downloader version 3.16 which works a treat
It is a 1.75MB installation file myspace_d_setup.exe
so here is my mini tutorial
illustrated as always with what I trust will be useful screenshots made with Gadwin Printscreen as I beautifully describe in my tutorial on making screenshot at:-
http://johnfowles.org.uk/Tutorials/s...s_tutorial.htm

Saving MySpace Videos

Go to http://www.downloadtoolz.com/myspace/ and download the program
Install it
Open the program
Check the little box to "enable autostart downloads" which you can see on the screenshot below
select where you would like to save the video file and a format
for Peewees videos
go to:-

http://www.myspace.com/peeweecharles

under each of the 4 videos is a tempting "menu" button be tempted and press it a pop up menu will err umm Pop Up showing "Embed Code and URL

select the "embed code and URL" option

Press the copy button to (do I have to spell everything out for you??)

copy that URL to your clipboard

In the program window (or Mackintosh??!)replace the example URL with PeeWees URL (from your clipboard of course)
I am assuming that MACs have the clipboard facility, if not get a PC!![
Press "Add"

your desired video reference should appear and begin downloading

here are my three saved video files

Do note that I selected the avi format option because I know that it is then fairly easy to burn a DVD from that format.

Oops a hint of yet another tutorial

11-16-2009, 02:39 PM	#3
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Re: Pee Wee Further to my earlier mini tutorial on downloading videos from youtube .I have been contacted by PM by a damsel in distress, indeed I suspect she is verily on the "brink" of despair because my methods would not help her to save the three GL music videos as embedded in PeeWee's MySpace page at:- http://www.myspace.com/peeweecharles Good point I thought and I seemed to recall reading of a method or program to do the same for myspace videos as countless programs do for youtube I know that somewhere I have the three videos squirelled away but could not remember either where or even how I saved them, so as is my want I googled. The obvious leading result was that there is indeed a Firefox browser plug in and conveniently I have Firefox installed on my Ferrari notebook (plus I was evaluating Google's shiny Chrome browser) for those occasions when Internet Explorer is imminently going to explode.However I wasted a full 30 minutes unsuccesfully trying to grab that plug in. Fed up I naturally regoogled and spotted http://http://www.downloadtoolz.com/myspace/ from where you can download the freeware program *myspace video downloader version 3.16* which works a treat It is a 1.75MB installation file myspace_d_setup.exe so here is my mini tutorial illustrated as always with what I trust will be useful screenshots made with Gadwin Printscreen as I beautifully describe in my tutorial on making screenshot at:- http://johnfowles.org.uk/Tutorials/s...s_tutorial.htm Saving MySpace Videos Go to http://www.downloadtoolz.com/myspace/ and download the program Install it Open the program Check the little box to "enable autostart downloads" which you can see on the screenshot below select where you would like to save the video file and a format for Peewees videos go to:- http://www.myspace.com/peeweecharles under each of the 4 videos is a tempting "menu" button be tempted and press it a pop up menu will err umm Pop Up showing "Embed Code and URL select the "embed code and URL" option Press the copy button to (do I have to spell everything out for you??) copy that URL to your clipboard In the program window (or Mackintosh??!)replace the example URL with PeeWees URL (from your clipboard of course) I am assuming that MACs have the clipboard facility, if not get a PC!![ Press "Add" your desired video reference should appear and begin downloading here are my three saved video files Do note that I selected the avi format option because I know that it is then fairly easy to burn a DVD from that format. Oops a hint of yet another tutorial __________________ "Sir" John Fowles Bt Honorary Curator Bootleg Museum (where Sir does not signify that I am a fully benighted Knight just a Bt which signifies a humble Baronet -?? read the wiki!) I meant no one no harm Once inside we found a curious moonbeam Doing dances on the floor Last edited by johnfowles; 11-16-2009 at 03:14 PM.