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YouTube is so popular and there are so many great videos on it. Wanna to download YouTube videos you are interested in? Then you may ask how to download videos from YouTube site on Mac? It's simple and easy to download those YouTube videos with Safari. Just follow the below three steps about copying YouTube video with Safari and conversion for Safari youtube video.

How to download YouTube movies and videos with Safari on Mac

Step1. Open YouTube.com in Safari on your Mac OS

No need further explanation for this step. But only need to remember this: use Safari!

Step2. Open Activity Window from Safari

To open activity window on Safari, you can use either keystrokes Command-Option-A or paths Safari: Window ? Activity.

Look at activity from YouTube.com and then search for the biggest file size which is obviously the video file. Double-click it and copy the You Tube video with Safari.

Step 3: Rename YouTube FLV video

Soon you will realize that a file named get_video is downloaded. This is the YouTube video you want to download through Safari. Rename it to something.flv (you can replace something with anything).

Finally, you got the video file with Safari downloader. Open it with FLV Player to watch the video.

Tip: If you found using Safari to download YouTube is not stable enough, then Free YouTube Downloader for Mac is a totally FREE yet all-in-one YouTube video downloader, collector and player for Mac OS.

Step 4: Video Converter for Safari YouTube FLV video on Mac

After the download for YouTube .flv and HD video using Safari, you can download Video Converter for Mac to convert YouTube videos on Mac for iPod, iPhone, QuickTime, MKV, MP3 etc. Also this Mac Video Converter can convert other video formats (including HD AVCHD MTS TOD MOD M2TS WMV video) to YouTube FLV video and YouTube HD video on Mac. 

And another software, all-in-one YouTube Downloader for Mac and FLV Converter for Mac can download YouTube videos quickly and convert FLV video to all popular video formats and for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Nokia and other portable device optimized formats and free download online video on Mac OS X.