How To Download YouTube Videos on Mobile or Desktop?

1. Open YouTube app and go to the video you wish to download.
2. Click on the three-dot icon placed below the video. Click on Download Video.
3. Once the download is completed, users can find it in Library > Downloads.
4. If you want to change the download quality, head to Settings by clicking on the profile tab and then click on Downloads. Tap on Download Quality and choose from the available options. While Premium users get the ability to download in higher resolutions, free users can download till 720p quality
    

How to Download Youtube videos?

How to Download YouTube Videos

Hours of footage is uploaded to YouTube every second. What if you want to download it? In some circles, that’s considered a big no-no, but you have your reasons, right? Here’s how

There are billions of hours of video on YouTube. Literally. And that’s hardly the most astounding statistic about the site, which has been the go-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’s a side subject that must be broached: Is it legal?

Downloading YouTube videos on an iPhone has always remained a mystery. Every now and then, a website appears on the internet that seems to be working but is taken down eventually. So is there a legitimate way to download YouTube videos on an iPhone? As Apple has a robust security system in place, it is usually challenging to download files or install applications from unknown resources.

For personal viewing, it is easy to save a YouTube video. Although, downloading the video as an MP4 file might be tricky. If users search for a YouTube to MP4 converter on the Safari Web Browser, the request returns a lot of websites. However, not all of them seem to work, and some of them might be used for malicious purposes as well. Hence, it is better to avoid suspicious links or websites claiming to download YouTube videos on iPhone

Obviously, stealing videos from YouTube is a big no-no. If you want to share a video, YouTube and most other video sites make it easy, from embedding to emailing to sharing via social networks. You simply do not need to download a video most of the time.

However, you have your reasons. If you must download a YouTube video—absolutely need to, just for yourself, and not for dissemination, and not to be a total douche-nozzle—here’s how.

Note: This story is updated frequently as the tools involved change regularly. Some of those changes are not always pleasant, such as software so full of “extras” it gets flagged as malware by antivirus tools. The same goes for the helper websites—a change in a site’s ad network can also create issues with malware.

To prevent 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 free version.
• Work with top 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 so).
• Have an interface that doesn’t suck.
• Not collect your personal data beyond your email address.
• Not contain malware. If there’s even a whiff of it in the air, even 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 you’re not really emptor-ing.

YouTube Premium Downloads

A brand new (as of September 2021) feature is now available for subscribers of YouTube Premium. This is the paid version of YouTube that allows you to watch without ads. It now offers video downloads. Kind of.

There are some major caveats.

• This is considered an experimental feature. Google only plans to make it available officially until October 19, 2021. So you’ve got less than a month to try it. Who knows if YouTube will make it permanent.
• All the video you download is limited to 1080p quality max, or lower. No 4K.
• You can only try one experimental feature at a time (so you can’t have this feature active along with the new trial of “picture-in-a-picture on iOS.”)
• On your first download—initiated by clicking the Download link under a video you see in Chrome, Edge, or Opera on the desktop—the service will try to get you to download the YouTube desktop app, which is free and optional.

The biggest caveat however is that this feature doesn’t really download a video to save on your computer forever. It is more akin to the download feature found on mobile apps for Netflix and Hulu, which makes a streaming video available to watch later, using your local storage. This is not a method that allows you to, say, watch a video using a different player like the VLC Media Player.

You access the download by going to the YouTube hamburger menu and selecting Downloads to get the list of what you’ve grabbed with the browser. The page says “Downloads remain available as long as your device has an active internet connection at least once every 30 days.”

This probably isn’t exactly what you are looking for in a download. But the tools below deliver exactly that.

Desktop Software

Third-party software is where you will get the best 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 it can find. 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 Flash-based, so your download was an FLV file, but those tend to be harder to play back. MP4, short for MPEG-4 Part 14 multimedia format, plays everywhere

Note that the MKV file, also called a Matroska, is a container—the file could contain 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 about it below.) As for the downloaders, here are the best options.

VLC Media Player

Free; Windows, macOS, Linux

We mention VLC Media PlayerVLC Media Player above because it’s a fantastic tool for Windows users that plays back just about any media ever created. It turns out, it also has the ability to download YouTube videos, albeit in a convoluted way. (If you run into any problems with it, you may need to do a full re-install of VLC and clear your cache to make it work.)

Copy a URL from a YouTube video, then 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 Information. There is a box at the bottom called “Source”—copy the URL you find in that box

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Posted by Sanjit Gupta