Which program to download YouTube videos?

[Hervé]

Regarding DVDVideosoft/Free Studio, as I posted somewhere else:

Posted by Hervé (here)
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Else, there is this one: https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/ with the complete suite here: https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dv...o-software.htm


[Edit: Actually, the latest version of the suite (DVDVideosoft-FreeStudio_6.6.39.707) contains a bridled version of the YouTube download program which only allows videos under 3 minutes length to be downloaded... so, I retrograded back to version FreeStudio_6.6.1.119 that I had saved]

[mojo]

Hi all,
I wanted to download a video but when clicking on the download button Youtube wants to charge me 10 dollars a month. Does anyone know of a good software to download Youtube videos? Thanks.

edit: funny I did an advanced search and this didnt come up. Thank you mods for adding my last post.

I took a members advice and chose CLIPGRAB for downloading, issue solved....

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by mojo (here)
I took a members advice and chose CLIPGRAB for downloading, issue solved....

Thanks - clipgrab works for me too (on my Linux Artix distro).

[dim]

Use any instance. Enjoy youtube without adds. There's a download dropdown menu, with various quality options, audio only, subtitles, etc.
https://redirect.invidious.io/

yt-dlp is active and updated.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
grab the latest release https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
open a command line window in any OS and type "yt-dlp <youtube url>"

[palehorse]

I use `yt-dlp` for years now, but it is command line, not suitable for many.

On Firefox I have an add-on from here: https://www.yourvideofile.org/
You can also search in mozilla marketplace it is available there.


It works like charm, but MP3 options are only for paid members, for me MP4 360P is more than enough.
See, there is 2 Download buttons available, the one from the Add-on is the green one, the other one is from youtube itself.

[kaiserschmarrn]

i also use yt-dlp for youtube and a few other websites, but for websites where yt-dlp doesn‘t work i use a free firefox browser addon:
"Video DownloadHelper"
https://www.downloadhelper.net/

[Tintin]

Posted by mojo (here)
Hi all,
I wanted to download a video but when clicking on the download button Youtube wants to charge me 10 dollars a month. Does anyone know of a good software to download Youtube videos? Thanks.

edit: funny I did an advanced search and this didnt come up. Thank you mods for adding my last post.

I took a members advice and chose CLIPGRAB for downloading, issue solved....

That's a good tip

I'm currently continuing to have success with 4K video downloader (also works for Rumble) and also tubeoffline.com

[Ewan]

Copy video link direct from Youtube then paste into the box on the page below, very rarely have any problems and it produces various resolutions as choices.

https://9xbuddy.com/

For converting .mp4 files to .mp3, same rules on link below.

https://offmp3.com/en-2aa

[Bill Ryan]

I'm aware there are many new free online sites for this, and the best recommendations might change quite frequently. Can we update this thread with any new suggestions?

[seekingtruth]

Apparently youtube have recently cracked down on downloads, so a lot of the online tools have stopped working and are scrambling to find a solution.

JDownloader and Stacher are client side, so you have to download a small bit of software, but I believe they aren't affected by the crackdown.

Failing that, if all else fails, you can always just use a screen recording tool like OBS or similar.

[Bill Ryan]

I use these two sites:

• https://savefrom.net
• https://yt1d.com

The way I download the YT videos is to click the '360p' button while also choosing 'Save Link As'. That always works for me on Firefox. If I just click the button and do nothing else, the video appears but can then be downloaded by clicking 'Save Video As'.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

• https://savefrom.net

Won't work in the UK. Their front page has this message.

[gord]

I've used yt-dlp for a long time, but looking over the thread, I see that the two mentioned by Ewan here have been updated, and now also exist as desktop and mobile apps found at https://123sudo.com/. They look quite interesting.