YouTube has been 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. Below are the steps required for downloading and watching YouTube videos on your computer for free.
After the file has been downloaded, it will be available in your downloads folder.
Saving YouTube video as a video file on your computer
Today, there are 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 three-step process to download any YouTube video.
Note: If you are at a school or job that is blocking YouTube, these steps may not work.
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.
2. Once this address has been copied, paste that URL into the text field on the websites
as below by clicking inside the box and pressing Ctrl + V on your keyboard. Then, click the Download Video button.
3.You can skip above steps by editing address bar. There remove "www."(www and dot) and replace it with "ss"(double s).Now hit enter to directly visit download page and skip step 2.
4. If done properly, a new window will appear displaying a preview of the video (as shown below), along with a green Download button and the video format. The default format for downloading the video is the MP4 360p format.
If you click on the "MP4 360p" format option, a drop-down list will appear. Click on the More option in that drop-down list to see additional video formats, such as FLV, 3GP, and WebM. Select the video format you want and click the green Download button.
After the file has been downloaded, it will be available in your downloads folder.
What about a private video?
You cannot download private videos because the YouTube download service will not have the necessary rights to access the video.
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