At that place are billions of hours of video on YouTube. Literally. And that's inappreciably the most phenomenal statistic about the site, which has been the become-to destination for uploading and watching video since 2005. That said, sometimes, you really want or need to have one of those videos on your own computer or phone. But when the topic of downloading YouTube videos comes up, there'due south a side subject that must be broached: Is information technology legal?

On the copyright front, as long as you're downloading a video for your own personal offline use, you're probably okay. It'due south more than blackness and white when you lot consider Google'southward terms of service for YouTube, which read: "You are not allowed to...admission, reproduce, download, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, alter, alter or otherwise apply any office of the Service or any Content except: (a) as expressly authorized by the Service; or (b) with prior written permission from YouTube and, if applicable, the respective rights holders."

Watching YouTube videos offline through unofficial channels takes money from Google and video creators. In that location'south a reason YouTube runs ads: People make a living this way.

Obviously, stealing videos from YouTube is a big no-no. If y'all want to share a video, YouTube and almost other video sites make it like shooting fish in a barrel, from embedding to emailing to sharing via social networks. You but do not demand to download a video nigh of the time.

However, yous have your reasons. If y'all must download a YouTube video—absolutely need to, just for yourself, and non for dissemination, and not to be a total douche-nozzle—here'southward how.

Note: This story is updated frequently equally the tools involved alter regularly. Some of those changes are not always pleasant, such every bit software so full of "extras," it gets flagged as malware by antivirus tools. The aforementioned goes for the helper websites—a change in a site's advertizement network can too create issues with malware.

To forbid this from becoming a laundry list of programs and sites that can download YouTube videos, we came up with a few rules for inclusion. Services must:

Support 4K downloads even in the costless version.
Work with height three video sites:YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo.
Download entire playlists or channels in a batch (on YouTube), at least with a paid version.
Output to MP3 for audio (or offer companion software that does and then).
Take an interface thatdoesn't suck.
Not collect your personal data beyond your email address.
Not comprise malware. If there's fifty-fifty a whiff of it in the air, fifty-fifty a PUP, it's out.

The programs, services, and sites in this story are all free of spam/virus/problems as of this writing, but caveat emptor. Big time. Especially if y'all're non really emptor-ing.

YouTube Premium Downloads

At present available for subscribers of YouTube Premium—the paid version of YouTube that allows you to spotter without ads—are video downloads. Kind of. There's one caveat with quality: All the video y'all download is express to 1080p quality max, or lower. No 4K.

The biggest outcome is, this feature doesn't really download a video to save on your figurer forever. It is more than akin to the download feature found on mobile apps for Netflix and Hulu, which makes a streaming video bachelor to sentinel later using your local storage and views information technology using the app's interface merely. This is not a method that allows you to, say, watch a video using different software such as the VLC Media Player.

You access the download by going to the YouTube hamburger carte du jour and selecting Downloads to view the list of what yous've grabbed. The folio says "Downloads remain bachelor every bit long as your device has an active internet connection at to the lowest degree once every xxx days." This probably isn't exactly what y'all are looking for in a download. But the tools below evangelize exactly that.

Desktop Software

Third-political party software is where you volition get the all-time control over downloading online videos. Typically, you paste the URL for the YouTube video you want into the program, and it downloads the highest quality version information technology can notice. For videos in 1080p High Definition (HD) format, that's usually an MP4 file. For anything higher in quality—4K or 8K—the file format is typically MKV.

In the past, YouTube videos were Wink-based, so your download was an FLV file, but those tend to exist harder to play back. MP4 (short for MPEG-four Role 14 multimedia format) plays everywhere

Note that the MKV file, too called a Matroska, is a container—the file could comprise video utilizing any number of codecs inside. The fool-proof way to play them all is to use the VLC Media Player for Windows, which plays everything. (Read more than about it below.) As for the downloaders, here are the best options.

VLC Media Player

Costless; Windows, macOS, Linux

We mention VLC Media Histrion to a higher place because it'south a fantastic tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux users that plays back just about whatever media ever created. It also has the ability to download YouTube videos, admitting in a convoluted style. (If you run into any problems, try a full re-install of VLC and clear your cache to make it piece of work.)

Copy a URL from a YouTube video, and so open up VLC. From the Media menu, select Open Network Stream (Ctrl+N) and paste in the URL. Click Play. When the video is playing, go to Tools > Codec Data. In that location is a box at the bottom called "Source"—copy the URL you lot discover in that box.

Get back to your browser and paste the URL—it'due south a temporary web address and will expire somewhen—in the accost bar and start playing the video. When you're viewing the video in the browser, click the 3-dot carte du jour at the lower correct for the download option to keep information technology locally.

Withal, it appears that VLC is merely going to save your file as 1080p and not whatsoever college, fifty-fifty if the original YouTube stream was available in 1440p or 2160p (aka 4K). It also won't catechumen video to other formats. To get those options, y'all need the desktop software below.

4K Video Downloader

Free or $xv for lifetime license on 3 computers; Windows, macOS, Ubuntu Linux, Android

Multi-lingual 4K Video Downloader (4KVD) is oft updated and features clear download links on the programme'south website; no advertizing traps hither. The software does what it advertises in a simple interface. It grabs videos up to 8K in quality and downloads to plenty of formats. Simply copy a YouTube URL and click the Paste Link button to get started. 4KVD will even grab subtitles, entire playlists, and all the videos in a aqueduct to which y'all subscribe. The sites supported are limited to the big names similar YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and a few others, only that covers well-nigh of what y'all need. It does brandish a large banner advertisement to keep the lights on and you're limited to 30 downloads a day on the free version.

I had to brand a switch from MP4 to MKV format to go my test video to download in 4K. 4KVD snagged the iii-minute, 229.7MB file for the motion picture trailer in well-nigh one infinitesimal and 20 seconds. 4KVD defaults dorsum to 1080p Hd, so I fabricated the aforementioned switch when downloading an Ultra Loftier Definition (8K) playlist.

If you lot enable the Smart Mode and its presets, 4KVD can perform one-click downloads to your favorite format. If you desire to download more than 25 videos at a time or subscribe to YouTube channels to instantly download the latest, that requires the paid version. Playback of the resulting MKV files via VLC Media Player was flawless.

The programme itself has an choice to extract sound to MP3 format, so you don't even need the 4K YouTube to MP3 companion software.

VideoProc Converter

$59.xc for ane yr, $78.90 lifetime, $119.90 family (2-v PCs); Windows, macOS

The powerful VideoProc from Digiarty comes in an editor edition and this converter, which also provides editing and furnishings. The downloading aspect is smashing, a version similar to Digiarty'southward WinX YouTube Downloader, which y'all can still find but is not promoted by the company these days. This makes sense, as VideoProc Converter handles a lot of downloading, supposedly supporting 4K from over ane,000 websites. With hardware acceleration, information technology promises some speed. Thankfully, it oft offers price discounts.

To use it, you open the software, let it discover your hardware to see what you have to aid with acceleration (if anything). Click the Downloader button, click Add video to identify every bit many URLs as you want to batch, and and then Download Now. Or y'all tin can get a whole YouTube playlist or live stream. It grabbed our 697MB test 4K video to WEBM format in nearly 2 minutes and 15 seconds, which isn't bad. Best of all, the trial version of VideoProc Converter, which limits conversions to 5 minutes, doesn't announced to limit downloads.

FlixGrab

1-year license $44.99 plus tax (or $9.99 for Complimentary YouTube Download); Windows

Like some others, FlixGrab has several unlike programs available, many with overlapping features. For case, it has FlixGrabMS (a version you lot get from the Microsoft Store to run on Windows 10/eleven)—but information technology wouldn't allow me catch video from YouTube. The directly download of the FlixGrab program from the flixgrabapp.com site did piece of work with YouTube and several other sites,. Plus it offers a Complimentary YouTube Download that is specific to YouTube, yet uses the same easy-to-utilise interface. The downside, equally with others, is the high subscription price, simply it's the simply fashion to become high-quality downloads. The YouTube-but version is substantially cheaper at $nine.99 per year, however. Neither comes with a trial period.

5KPlayer

Free; Windows and macOS

The free 5KPlayer is a lot more than a downloader, only it'southward got a heck of an integrated downloader. Promising no viruses, ads, or plug-in requirements is a good start. It is, sadly, one of the few tested that asks for a registration of your name and email—you have to do that to go the full download part across 300+ sites. However, you can still nab 4K vids from YouTube without registering.

When downloading, the program does effort to hide some things. Paste in the URL for a YouTube video and the analysis engine runs and shows only a few download options. Click the gear icon, then the Show All button, and roll to come across more—similar a 4K 3,840-past-2,160 file in WebM format. The 227MB WebM test download took an disturbing 6.5 minutes. Grabbing playlists was possible, but you must adjust download settings one video at a fourth dimension. The confusing interface makes information technology difficult to get dorsum to the other videos in the playlist.

5K Actor also features DLNA server playback so videos yous take hold of can be watched on any devices that support DLNA, plus it supports AirPlay for quick playback to Apple devices. Selection a video in the library for quick conversion to MP4, MP3, or even ACC (the audio format preferred past iOS). The player didn't like playing back the overly large 4K file, though, and experienced buffering issues (VLC didn't accept any trouble with the aforementioned file).

Ultimately, there's a lot to similar about 5K Role player, from the cost to the features, especially if you expect at them as extras on a downloader. Merely the bad interface, slow download speeds, and playback issues may take you looking elsewhere.

Helper Websites

Do you want to avoid installing software? Video download helper sites are supposed to practise the download work for you. All of them exercise one bones thing: You requite them a YouTube URL (or another video site, if supported), they parse it, give y'all a choice of what size download you want, and provide a link to said download. They work on whatever platform, sometimes even on mobile devices. You don't have to install anything on your PC. It can take a lot longer, depending on the size and quality of the video y'all desire, but you can't beat the convenience.

The problem is, you can't ever trust them. In that location are hundreds of these types of sites out there—it seems anyone with a modicum of coding ability has fix one up. Such sites hands go from useful to suspicious, peculiarly if they get pop and the proprietor sells out to make greenbacks off your visits.

Recommended by Our Editors

Since this story was outset published, all the helper sites we recommended have been removed for reasons like adding sexually explicit ads, no longer working, switching to pushing its download utility just, and one for going out of business to avoid getting sued.

For that reason, we're non recommending whatsoever helper sites at the moment. Try i if you lot find it, merely if your browser, antivirus, or instincts throw up warnings, avoid and move on.

Extensions

A browser extension can salvage you a step. However, yous're going to see some bug with downloading video from YouTube, especially if you're using Chrome every bit your master browser.

The Chrome Spider web Store—where y'all get Chrome browser extensions—is controlled by YouTube's possessor Alphabet/Google. Even an extension ostensibly for this purpose isn't going to let YouTube direct downloads, considering of Chrome Store restrictions. In general, with Chrome extensions, the download of any RTMP protocol video (protected videos) or streaming video isn't possible. You can use them on other sites with video, of course. Just not YouTube.

Want to get effectually it? Get an extension that does not come up from the Google Spider web Store. Some of the programs and helper sites offer an extension component and volition spell out how to practise the install without the assistance the Chrome Spider web Store usually provides. Hither are a couple.

YouTube Video Downloader

Gratuitous; Chrome, Opera, Border, Vivaldi, UCBrowser

YouTube Video Downloader from Addoncrop is on multiple browsers but with first-class side-load capabilities. It puts a button beneath whatever video you're playing on YouTube, or even an embedded YouTube video, making it like shooting fish in a barrel to grab. Supported video quality goes up to 8K. You can also convert audio from the video to an MP3. It will fifty-fifty help you take video screenshots.

Video DownloadHelper

Free; Firefox, Chrome, Edge

Video DownloadHelper supports a huge number of sites—even those for adults. You lot'll know a video is downloadable when the icon for the extension animates when you lot're on the web page. Video DownloadHelper for Chrome has stopped working with YouTube; that manner, it could get placement in the Chrome Web Store. Get effectually that by using the Video DownloadHelper extension on Firefox or Border instead.

Mobile

Downloading from YouTube using an Android app from the Google Play Shop is a challenge, given that Google has a tight grip on the site it owns, and offers the paid YouTube Premium service that supports offline viewing.

That said, with Android, information technologyis possible to install apps without going through Google. For case, InsTube – Free Video and Music Downloader for Android can but be found at InsTube's site. Download the APK (Android application parcel) file to sideload on an Android device. Discover it in your device's downloads and click to install. (You lot may have to go into your security settings and enable "Unknown sources.")

(Instube)

On iPhones and iPads, you'd recall there would exist no such restriction since Apple and Google aren't exactly the best of pals (or maybe they are). Still, on the iOS apps I take tried, not just wouldn't they download from YouTube, but they're likewise typically not available for long. 1 of those apps said in its description, "Downloading from YouTube is prohibited due to its Terms of Service." Apple tree is ensuring that app makers play by the rules—fifty-fifty Google's rules.

Chances are, the minute you lot detect an iOS app that can download YouTube videos, it will go "stock-still" or banned. The simply real selection is to jailbreak your iPhone and apply sideloaded apps that download what yous want.

There are workarounds. One is to subscribe to YouTube Premium; it lets y'all download video on your iPhone or iPad to watch later, much as Netflix and Hulu exercise.

Another is using a free iOS file manager app similar Documents by Readdle. Employ the Safari browser to visit a YouTube video, and use the Share selection to notice Copy Link. Then go back to Documents, and use the built-in browser in the app to surf to a video download helper site. Paste the link into the form (concur your finger down on it until you become the "Paste" menu to pop up). The site will give you the links to download, and yous tin save the file to Documents. Agree and drag the file upward, until yous're back on the main screen, then drag it to the Photos folder. You'll need to requite Documents permission to access Photos the first time. You tin then admission the video like you would whatsoever video taken on the phone or tablet—in the Photos app.

Another workaround: Go dorsum to the desktop and try AnyTrans ($39.99 for a single computer for one year, Windows or macOS), a desktop file manager for iOS devices that has an integrated downloader supporting 900 sites, including YouTube and Facebook. It'll transfer the videos to the iPhone for y'all over the USB cable. Fifty-fifty if you don't pay for AnyTrans, the download option remains and is costless forever.

YT Scribe

Want a truly unique way to "download" a video? YT Scribe lets y'all grab the transcription and so you can read them instead. Information technology auto-transcribes, punctuates, and paragraphs the text. The better the subtitles, the better the "article," of class. Best of all, it's totally complimentary.

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