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The only problem I ran into was that there was no download link/button. Despite what their directions said, I currently have no way to download my old video because there's no link!

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This works for me:

  python youtube-dl -t google-video-url

http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/

youtube-dl is great, and I find it to be well-maintained also; if ever it doesn't work, I just go see if there is a new version, which there invariably is, and which invariably works. It seems to have a decent feature set, too.

I've had problems with every other youtube downloader I've tried, and none with youtube-dl.

If you haven't used this already,

    youtube-dl -U

get_flash_videos will pull the video off almost any random URL.

http://code.google.com/p/get-flash-videos/

I ran into the same problem. There is no download link. They should have an option to directly upload it to youtube.

UPDATE: Finally figured out a way to download the video, incase you don't see the download link. Find the "cid" from the "Edit Video Info>>" link and paste it in this url http://www.google.com/video/upload/DownloadVideo?cid=[video_...

This works great, thanks. Strangely, after you download, the link shows up.

one of two videos has a download link for me.

one uploaded in 2008 has a link but not the one from 2006

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