Send Youtube videos to your Dropbox folder

Post by zackb » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 7:43 PM UTC

tommi wrote: post #3

doublesprout wrote: post #2

Why hasn't Dropbox extended its main service with something like this yet? Incredibly simple apps like puu.sh and Skitch have taken off as separate apps and there has been a scattering of Dropbox-integrated third party tools, which I typically have to give away my Dropbox key to use. There's so much data on the web that is difficult to pull out of the cloud, and Dropbox is in the unique position of bridging these two…

So perhaps they are building more like a platform and releasing it when it's ready? Who knows. Ripping content out of a youtube might be denied in some EULA so maybe Dropbox just doesn't want to get involved due to legal issues. In any case, Dropbox does one thing and does it well. Anything else is extra and I congratulate them for keeping their game together.

Post by samrat » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 7:46 PM UTC

twapi wrote: post #12

It downloads videos in FLV format ... any way to opt for MP4?

Post by dbuxton » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 8:03 PM UTC

Post by OpenAmazing » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 10:21 PM UTC

samrat wrote: post #6

tripzilch wrote: post #4

It's not entirely clear to me whether this tool transloads the video straight from YouTube to DropBox, or whether it travels (even temporarily) through your machine to do so? I fear it's the latter, and that would basically mean you're using your bandwidth twice. Can DropBox transload files from arbitrary URLs? Because then it should totally be possible.

It's the latter. Dropbox doesn't allow transloading files from arbitrary URLs, so it has to travel through my server.

Post by mhunter » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 11:13 PM UTC