Video URL Converter

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Last Updated: August 7, 2006
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This small tool will quickly and easily take a URL from a page a movie is on and turn it into one you can use in your multimedia section of your profile.

Supported Source Websites

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Instructions

Use of this tool is very simple. All you need to do is to tell it which site your video is from, give it the link to the page it's on, then press the Convert button. The converted URL will appear in the box below. Click on it to automatically highlight the text, copy it, then paste it into your multimedia section.
This link will not break, as long as the video is not removed from the host site.

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Brief Interface Overview
  • Source Website Selection
    Click the radio button for the site your video is from.
  • Video URL Entry
    Paste the link for your video's page in this box.
  • Convert Button
    Click this button to convert the URL into one you can use.
  • Clear Button
    Click this button to clear the boxes on the page.
  • Converted URL
    Click on the text to select it, then copy it.

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Specific Source Website Instructions

YouTube

Getting the page URL
On the left-hand side of the screen is a box with two different lines of text for you to copy. Copy the text from the first box (NOT the second one!) and paste it into the first box on the converter page.

Converting the URL yourself
Simply remove the watch? from the URL, and change the = into a /.
Example:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=y25XCwOBSUQ
http://youtube.com/v=y25XCwOBSUQ (removed the "watch?")
http://youtube.com/v/y25XCwOBSUQ (replace = with /, finished version)

Google Video

Getting the page URL
Copy the link from the top of your browser window and paste it into the first box on the converter page.

Converting the URL yourself
On the right hand side of the page is a box with the embed code in it. Copy this and paste it into any text editing program (Notepad, Wordpad, Word, ect). The link is already there for you, you just have to fish it out!

<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7976476300118572810" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" scale="noScale" wmode="window" salign="TL" FlashVars="playerMode=embedded"> </embed>

The part in bold is the section of the text that you want-- everything between src=" and the " that immediately follows the number.

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