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How to download videos from Flickr

Elena Santos

Elena Santos

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Though many Flickr users seem to be against the presence of videos on the popular photo sharing site the truth is that you can already find a bunch of short movies of all kinds. Now the question is whether there is a way to download them to your hard drive, and the answer is yes, though you need to install Orbit Downloader first.

For those of you who don’t know this program, Orbit Downloader is an excellent download manager that handles all your downloads in an easy, convenient interface and is compatible with all main browsers. So once you have Orbit Downloader on your PC, browse to the Flickr video you want to download and you’ll see a tiny gray arrow on its right top corner.

Download videos from Flickr

Click it and you’ll launch Grab++, Orbit’s grabbing utility. You may be asked to refresh the page – for Grab++ to get all the downloadable elements available on the webpage – so simply press F5 on your browser and go back to Grab++.

Download videos from Flickr

Now look for the video on the list. It’s easy to spot: it’s an FLV file and it’s probably the largest in size. Select it, click on “Download” and it’s all yours. Just make sure that the video is actually playing on Flickr (otherwise you’ll get an error message in Orbit) and that you have an FLV player to watch the video once it’s on your system.

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