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The TubeKit Toolbar is a Firefox extension, allowing one to collect a variety of structured data from YouTube with just a click. With the toolbar, you can (1) extract YouTube video links from any webpage, (2) extract a YouTube video's data, (3) extract a YouTube user's profile data, and (4) search in YouTube with different criteria. More details of the toolbar usage are given below, after the download instructions. The toolbar is included in any standard distribution of TubeKit Beta 4 or later.

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How to install the toolbar?
If your download starts right, Firefox should ask you about installing the toolbar. Just follow the instructions. If that doesn't happen, find your downloaded copy of the toolbar. In order to install the toolbar, simply drag and drop the .xpi file that you download after submitting the above form to Firefox. Once installed, you will have to restart Firefox.

How to use the toolbar?

The toolbar should look something like this:

Here is the explanation of various toolbar buttons.

  • TubeKit: This takes you to TubeKit homepage.
  • Extract Links: Clicking on this button will parse the displayed webpage (doesn't need to be a YouTube page) and extract any YouTube video links that it has.
  • Video Data: When you click on this button while viewing a YouTube video, it will extract a number of data from that video.
  • User Data: Clicking on this button while looking at a YouTube user's profile page will extract the profile data.
  • Search YouTube: You can enter your query here, choose the sorting criteria from the dropdown box and hit 'Search YouTube' to run your query on YouTube with the criteria you specified.
Screenshots (Click to view a larger image)

Extracting links
Extracting video data

Extracting user data
Searching in YouTube
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