5 Best Ways to Download YouTube Videos
1. Desktop YouTube Downloader
When considering about downloading something, the first thing comes to your mind is to install a software, that’s right. For all the desktop YouTube downloader, Gihosoft TubeGet is a good choice, as it completely free without any bundled software, ads, or malware etc. Besides, it’s very easy to use, even a novice can learn to use it in a few minutes, and get the full benefit of it. You just need 3 easy steps to download: Copy and paste the URL of the online video, Choose the resolution and saving location, and the last step is to download, quite simple.
2. Online Downloader Site
As users’ computer is full of high pixel pictures, high definition musics and videos, I bet that almost everyone wants to save their space, that’s why online sites become more and more popular. For online sites, ClipConverter is a good solution, as it can perfectly finish the downloading task. Like desktop software, you need to copy and paste the URL of the video, and it starts to download. Although it’s an online site, ClipConverter also plays an one-stop place for downloading, converting, extracting video to MP3, definitely an all-in-one site.
When talking about VLV media player, most people will consider it as a video player, what you do not know is that VLC media player can do a lot of things except playing videos, such as adding audio and video effects, converting video, recording desktop etc, and don’t forget the function of downloading online videos, that’s what I want to say in this article.
To operate this function, just click Media > Open Network Stream, then paste the URL of video you copy from the online sites, choose “Play”, and the video will automatically play, then click Tools > Codec Information, a interface named “Current Media Information” will pop up. Copy the link in the “Location”, and paste it in your browser, the video starts playing in your browser. Right-click anywhere on the browser and select “Save Video As”, then press “Enter” to make the video start downloading.
4. Use Short Domain Names
That’s the easiest way to download YouTube videos I think, all you have to do is to add a few words in the URL, and it starts to download. However, before you can download, first you should install an extension called DownloaderHelper, once this extension is installed successfully, you can download online videos in these steps below. This way can’t be more easier, you just need to put “ss” before the domain, you can also put "savefrom.net/" or "sfrom.net/" before the URL. For example, if your video URL is “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VezkjlkoY”, you can change it to “https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=d2VezkjlkoY”, it’s also your choice to change it to “savefrom.net/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VezkjlkoY” or “sfrom.net/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VezkjlkoY”. After adding the domain, then press “Enter” key, the video starts to download.
Compared with other 4 ways to download YouTube videos, this way seems a little technical, you must you know the command line very well before you want to use it. When you finish downloading youtube-dl, you should put it in your personal folder in the Users directory, then copy URL of the video, and open the command prompt, now it comes to the most important steps. Type this following command: “youtube-dl videolink”, or “youtube-dl playlist-link” if you want to download a playlist, press “Enter”, and the video will automatically download, you will find it in your file shown in command prompt.
You can type the command of “youtube-dl --help” to reveal some extra features such as to download from a particular number or to download in reverse order, etc. To select the video quality, first use the -F option to list the available formats, here’s an example:
The best quality is 22, if you want to download it, just type the command line like this: youtube-dl -F 22 URL, in this way you can download any resolution this video supports.
These are the 5 ways recommended for you to download YouTube videos, some of them can be replaced, like desktop sofoware and online YouTube downloader site, hope you will find the one suits for you the best.
