You can use the curl command or rely on Homebrew, a command-line package manager that I strongly recommend-refer to Homebrew’s home page for a one-line command to install it from Terminal. The project offers instructions for installing youtube-dl.
It’s not the friendliest option, but it’s free and powerful. The Command-Line Grand Poobah: youtube-dlĪrguably, the greatest of the YouTube downloaders is the public-domain youtube-dl, a command-line utility that powers many apps like the aforementioned IINA. That said, I’ve never heard of YouTube punishing a user for downloading videos, although using copyrighted material in videos you upload to YouTube could get you in trouble. YouTube and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content.
You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content. Note that downloading YouTube videos with a utility other than YouTube’s apps (which require a YouTube Premium subscription) nominally violates YouTube’s terms of service: There are several solutions on the Mac, and I review a few of them here. Whatever the reason, you don’t have to rely on Firefox to download videos from YouTube. Or, you may want to be able to play some YouTube videos in a situation where there’s no Internet access. A friend of mine accidentally deleted the “sizzle clip” he slaps on the front of every video in iMovie, and he solved the problem by downloading one of his own videos from YouTube and extracting that clip. For example, they may want to download short clips to use in their videos (honoring the doctrine of fair use, of course). The uploader might pull a video down, YouTube may remove a video in response to a copyright complaint (sometimes legitimate, sometimes not), and a video might disappear if it runs afoul of YouTube’s ever-changing and seemingly haphazard standards for acceptable content.īut preservation isn’t the only reason people download YouTube videos. Like most cloud-based things, YouTube videos are ephemeral-they vanish all the time for all kinds of reasons. There are several reasons you might want to download videos from YouTube. Recent changes in Firefox have broken extensions like DownThemAll, which used to be a handy way to download videos. When I reviewed the video player IINA (see “ Prepare for Apple Dropping Old Media Formats with the IINA Video Player,” ), quite a few TidBITS readers took it as an opportunity to vent their frustrations about downloading videos from YouTube.
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#1620: OS updates, AssistiveTouch for iOS shortcut palette, Photos album sharing bug.You just have to use the right programs, such as youtube-dl or yt-dlp, for the job (they are command line tools so you have to get used to them). Downloading deleted videos on Wayback Machine Youtube.We think you should always start with open-source tools. Tools like Shutter Encoder use open source libraries like yt-dl and are totally free.
How to get a video from TikTok, change the background music and add pictures in the video? I used to use those sites but switched to youtube-dl, and later to yt-dlp, which was recommended by a lot of people, since it's faster, safer, more consistent, and works for many more sites other than Youtube. easy to do, used to do it when I knew I would have no or bad internet.
One solution is to: (1) make a list of channels (2) learn to use YouTube-DL: (3) have a script that auto-runs the YouTube-DL script (4) then drop videos watched input a watched folder generate a spreadsheet and columns to note who has watched watch and filepath create a basic website etc.