YouTube is designed to only allow users to watch and view videos on their website. Many users want to download or save their favorite YouTube videos to their computer so they can watch them without being connected to the Internet or on other devices.
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Below are the steps required for downloading and watching YouTube videos on your computer for free.
NoteThis page only provides instructions for downloading or saving a YouTube video to your computer. Instructions for saving a video as audio is on our saving only the audio of a YouTube video to an MP3 file page.
TipUnless you plan on transferring the video to your smartphone or tablet after it is downloaded, see our how to download a YouTube video on a smartphone or tablet steps for these devices.
Saving YouTube video as a video file on your computer
Today, many websites that allow you to enter the URL of the video you want to save to your computer and get a link to download the video file. Below is a simple four-step process to download any YouTube video.
NoteThese steps may not work if at a school or job that's blocking YouTube.
1. First, go to the YouTube page containing the video you want to download. When you've found the page, press Ctrl+L on your keyboard to highlight the text in the address bar, and then Ctrl+C to copy the Internet address. If you are on an Apple computer substitute Ctrl with the Command key.
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2. Once this address is copied, paste that address into the text field below by clicking inside the box and pressing Ctrl+V on your keyboard. Then, click the Download Video button.
NoteIf the text field or Download Video button above is not visible or clickable, you can also type savefrom.net/ in front of any YouTube address.
3. Click the download video in browser link, below the green 'Download the app and get your video' box. If you don't see that link immediately, wait 10 to 15 seconds. It will be located to the right of the video you want to download.
NoteUsing the 'download video in browser' link will allow you to download a YouTube video for free. Ignore any advertisements that say you need to pay money to download a video. You do not need to purchase or install an app to download the YouTube video.
4. If done properly, below the link mentioned above, you will see a preview of the video (as shown below), along with a green Download button and the video format.
Click the down arrow on the right side of the Download box to see additional video formats, such as MP4, WebM, or 3GP. There may also be more than one quality option for each video format. Select the video format you want and click the green Download button.
TipAlso, if available in the list, the 'MP4 360' video option will open a new browser window to play the video. Right-click on the video in the new browser window and select Save video as to download and save the MP4 video file.
NoteCurrently, YouTube does not allow for the download of HD quality video, so the 'Full HD' video option will not work.
After the video is downloaded, the video file will be available in your downloads folder.
What about a private video?
You cannot download private videos because the YouTube download service would not have the necessary rights to access the video.
I still can't download a video
If after following the above steps, you do not get a preview like our example, make sure that the link you are using works by opening the page in a new window. Once verified as working, try the above steps again. If the steps continue not to work, try refreshing this page by pressing the F5 key on your keyboard and following the above steps again. If that does not work, try one of the YouTube download sites below. Or, use the link below for installing a utility to download videos on Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems.
It is only saving as audio and not video
Make sure you are choosing the 'MP4 360p' or 'MP4 480p' option from the download link. If you choose 'Audio MP4 128,' it only downloads the audio and not the video. If you did choose the right download link to download the file, it is very likely that the player you are using does not have the necessary codec for video files. Download the free VLC player for your computer and try to play the video file from within VLC and not the player you are currently using.
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YouTube bookmarklet, browser add-ons, and extensions
If you plan on downloading several videos, you can also use the Computer Hope YouTube bookmarklet. See our bookmarklet page for more information about bookmarklets. There are also browser add-ons for Firefox and extensions for Google Chrome to download videos from video sites.
Additional information
- See the YouTube definition for further information and related links.
If you have the habit of reading news every day, ABC News should be one of your options. Its website has provided great news resources for you, covering breaking news, latest news and also top video news. It’s convenient to go through news on ABCNews.com when you have internet connection, but what about when you are on the go? One good solution for this is to download the videos from ABC News and transfer to your portable devices to watch offline. The Wondershare AllMyTube (AllMyTube for Mac) could help you in this. It can download all videos from ABC News and also convert them to proper formats as you need. Want to have a try now? Let’s get started.
Download this program to install on your computer first. The program has two versions, so you should choose the right one for your computer. We will take the windows version as an example.
1 Find the videos from ABC News
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Go to ABCNews.com to find the videos you want to download. Click the videos to play. Note that you should play the videos on one of the following browsers: IE, Firefox or Chrome.
2 Download videos from ABC News
When the videos are playing, you can go to the top right of the video screen to find a Download button. Click the button to start downloading the videos.
You can also copy the url of the video and click the Paste URL button on the program to get the video downloaded.
Add many videos to the download queue through either of the above two ways and this program can download 5-10 videos simultaneously.
3 Convert videos to other formats
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After the videos are downloaded, go to the Finished library to find them. If you want to convert the videos to put into your portable devices, just click the Convert button on the right of the video item and select a format in the popped up Output Format window. Finally, click Ok to start converting.
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To find the local video files, you can right click the video in the library and select Show in Folder. Then you can drag and drop the videos to any devices that have been plugged in the computer. Can’t wait to try it out? Download the trial version to get started. You are going to love it.