How to download videos from Hulu

Posted on July 28, 2009 at 5:26 am

Ever want to download a video from the Hulu website? If you don’t know what Hulu is yet, it’s an awesome site for watching TV shows and movies online for free. However, it only allows you to stream content to your computer, kind of like how YouTube works.

Of course, there are a hundred tools to download YouTube videos, but nothing for Hulu, until now! Hulu Video Downloader is a free program that will save Hulu videos to your PC and convert them to popular formats such as AVI, MPEG, FLV, WMV, etc.

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Overall, the app is not the best looking or most easy to use app I’ve ever worked with. Actually, it has some strange quirks that might frustrate some!

To start off, you simply copy and paste the URL of the Hulu video you want to download. Before you press the Add button, make sure to click on one of the empty slots in the table below.

Once you hit the Add button, you should get a message a few seconds later with some kind of script error. At this point, click YES and the video should begin to download.

The program comes in a free version and a paid version. The free version only allows you to download up to three videos per session. If you want to download more, you have to close the program and open it again.

Also, the paid version allows you to download the Hulu videos in a higher quality format.

The program also supports other popular online video sites, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and more. Enjoy! [via LifeHacker]

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4 Responses to “How to download videos from Hulu”

  1. TechCombo said on : July 28th, 2009 at 7:22 am

    Thankyou for this useful tutorial :) Just hope Hulu is close to coming to the UK since the VoD service is such a great site! The closest we have here is perhaps tvlinks or alluc.org.


  2. Chuck said on : July 28th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    The newer versions only allow you to download 1 video at a time. Not sure if the program write did this to cripple it more or to keep hulu from seeing multiple connections open from the same IP address.

    It also seems that there is a cat-and-mouse game going on. It seems that at times, the program just stops doing what it is supposed to, then a new version comes out (sometimes 2 weeks after the last) and everything works again. However, the one-at-a-time limit was an unpleasant addition, but the program wasn’t working.

    Also, you can run multiple instances of the program at once, just in case you want to DL more than one at a time.


  3. Stene said on : November 6th, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Recording movies from hulu is just perfect, I love this idea, that’s why I got tunebite, to get as many movies as I need. :)


  4. Jim said on : November 17th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Hulu Video Downloader does not work for me. Every time I try and use it, I get an “”’ is not a valid integer’ or some message like that, at which time I get the standard windows error message, and then at which time my computer slows down to a crawl to the point that it sometimes requires a reboot. I have tried reinstalling several times with the same results.

    I get this message when I try using hulu grabber – “Access violation at address 00401BBD in module ‘hulugrabber.exe’. Read of address 109B0C3C.”
    Has anyone else encountered these problems? Thanks, Jim


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