This is a youtube downloader that works (it does use the old and invalid http://youtube.com/get_video url). ==Install== sudo gem install youtube_utils ==Usage== To use it as a command line tool: youtube_utils <youtube_url> For example: $youtube_utils http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ To use it in your code: requires 'youtube_utils' YoutubeUtils.new.get_videos 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdxXPV9GNQ' YoutubeUtils#get_videos will return a list videos along with their url/type/quality. You can NOT run it on the server and give the urls to someone else. The url is only valid for machines that execute YoutubeUtils#get_videos method (youtube generates an unique url for each computer). ==License== Copyright 2011 Intridea Inc ( http://intridea.com ), released under the MIT license.