Sorry folks, I’m offline for a few more days, so there will be little delays in postings. YouTube India was launched a few months back to great applause. Then a few months later, URL redirection based on IP address was implemented. So for an Indian user, you are redirected to IN.youtube.com (country-specific redirection was great).
I’m not a great fan of YouTube — I just use it for knowledge and a little entertainment. The Fast Video Downloader and Video Downloader add-ons for Firefox were working great for downloading videos. Well, I’m a bit lazy — I hadn’t downloaded a video from YouTube in a long time. Today both didn’t work since they haven’t been updated for IN.youtube.com (YouTube India). I thought some encryption in the YouTube URL had changed, so I used a proxy to visit youtube.com — the URL was the same, just “IN” was added at the front. Not even a single online YouTube downloader is prepared for IN.youtube.com, so you have to remove “IN.” from the URL to use online downloaders like TechCrunch Downloader, etc.
URL now: https://in.youtube.com/watch?v=123asd456
URL for download: https://youtube.com/watch?v=123asd456
That’s all you need to do.