YouTube-dl is a free and open-source command-line program for Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can use it to download videos from YouTube and other online video services.

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YouTube-dl can be used to download videos from over 700 websites with videos.

• Installing YouTube-dl
• Using YouTube-dl

Copyright and Fair Use

Downloading a YouTube video is legal if you use it in accordance with its license. Many YouTube videos use the standard YouTube license, and some are licensed under Creative Commons, for example. You can check the video's license type on its YouTube page by clicking 'Show More,' then clicking the license name.

For more information, see:

Installing YouTube-dl

For installation instructions, choose your operating system from the list below.

Installation: Windows

YouTube-dl does not have an installer, like most Windows programs. YouTube-dl consists of a single executable file, youtube-dl.exe, which you can download directly.

1. Open the project page at https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/, and click Download.

2. On the Download page, click the link for the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86). You might already have this installed; these steps will check, and install it if necessary.

3. Clicking the link takes you to a page at Microsoft's website. Click Download to download vcredist_x86.exe.

4. When the download is complete, open File Explorer, and go to the location on your computer where you downloaded vcredist_x86.exe. Double click the file to run it.

5. At the UAC prompt, click Yes.

6. If you see the message 'A newer version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable has been detected on the machine,' that means you already have it installed. You can click Close, and skip to step 8.

7. Otherwise, continue with the installation, choosing the default options. When installation is complete, click Close, and continue to the next step.

8. In your web browser, go back to the YouTube-dl Download page, and click Windows exe.

9. The file youtube-dl.exe will download.

10. YouTube-dl now exists in the folder where you downloaded it. You can run it by opening a command prompt, changing to your Downloads directory with the cd command, and running youtube-dl.

When you run youtube-dl, nothing will happen unless you provide it with the URL of a video to download. For examples of how to use the program, proceed to Downloading a video, below.

Installation: macOS

If you have Homebrew, you can install YouTube-dl by opening a Terminal and running the following command.

Or, if you have MacPorts, run the command below.

Or, you can download the source code using git, and compile it yourself:

You can also download it using curl:

Or with wget:

If you use curl or wget, youtube-dl will be downloaded to your current directory. To run the program from anywhere else, move youtube-dl to a directory of your choosing, and make sure this directory exists in your PATH environment variable. For example:

When installation is complete, you can proceed to Downloading a video, below.

Installation: Linux

YouTube-dl is available as a packaged binary in many Linux operating systems. For instance, on Debian or Ubuntu systems, you can install using apt:

On all Linux systems, you can also install it by using the curl, wget, or git methods listed above for macOS.

Using YouTube-dl

YouTube-dl is a command line program, so it has no GUI. Instead, you use it from your command prompt or terminal window.

• For help using the command prompt in Windows, see: How to use the Windows command line (DOS).
• For help using the terminal in Linux or macOS, see: Linux shell tutorial.

YouTube-dl has many options. Here, we'll cover the basics: downloading video, and downloading audio.

Downloading a video

The simplest way to use YouTube-dl is to give it the URL of a youtube video.

1. Go to a video on YouTube that you want to download. Select the text of the URL in the address bar, and copy it to your clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C. If the URL has a '&' in it (a playlist, for example), only copy the URL up to, but not including, the &.

2. Open a command prompt or terminal window. On Windows, you can open the command prompt if you press Win+R (hold down the Windows key and press R) to open the Run box, then type cmd and press Enter. In macOS, open Applications, then Utilities, and choose Terminal. On Linux, your terminal program will depend on your particular Linux distribution. Usually, you can press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal window.

3. Navigate to the folder where you downloaded YouTube-dl, using the cd command. (On macOS or Linux, if you installed using a package manager such as Homebrew or apt, you can skip this step. The youtube-dl executable is already installed to a directory in your PATH, so you can run it from any directory.)

4. Type youtube-dl, followed by a space. Then, paste the URL you copied in step 1. (In Windows, place your cursor in the command prompt window and right-click to paste. In macOS, you can paste in the terminal using ⌘+V. In most Linux terminals, press Ctrl+Shift+V.)

The command should look like this:

Press Enter to run the command and start the download.

5. The video will be downloaded to the current directory. You can now view it using a media player such as VLC.

Downloading audio

To download the audio of most YouTube videos, you can use the -f 140 option. For example:

YouTube-dl will extract the M4A audio version of the video file, and save it as an audio file with the M4A extension. You can then open it a media player such as VLC, or an audio editor such as Audacity.

To properly save some audio files, you may need to install the ffmpeg codec first. For Windows, visit https://www.ffmpeg.org to download ffmpeg. On macOS Homebrew, run brew install ffmpeg. On most Linux systems, the package name is ffmpeg, e.g., sudo apt install ffmpeg.

Then, to convert a downloaded audio file to the MP3 format, you can use ffmpeg -iinputfileoutputfile. For example, the command:

Will convert M4A audio file Lecture.m4a to an MP3 file, Lecture.mp3.

How To Download From Youtube Without Software

For a complete list of options, see the official YouTube-dl documentation on GitHub.

The world leading video sharing sites YouTube support upload and watch videos in HD, you can choose 1080P, 720P and 480P videos, 360P video is low quality in YouTube.

This is a good experience for those people who seeking for high quality videos, and we are going to introduce you the way to grab HD video from YouTube, you can save HD 1080P, 720P videos to PC and transfer to your iPad, iPod, MP4 player etc, even burn HD YouTube video to DVD.

Free way to grab HD video from YouTube

Videograbber.net support grabbing videos from YouTube for free, you just need to copy and paste the URL address of YouTube video, and click “Download”, the video will be automatically detected and download.

Tips: You do not need to choose HD mode while using videograbber.net, if this video have HD mode, you take the video address here, videograbber.net will auto find the highest model for you.

For example: If this YouTube video support HD 1080P, we will find the HD 1080P file for you, you only need click download and save YouTube HD video to your PC.

HD Video grabbed from YouTube will be in FLV or MP4 formats, if you need other video formats, especially the format is in FLV format, you would not able to use it for your digital devices, some video converter software (from CNET) would help you.

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Shareware to Grab YouTube HD video

Compare to freeware and online apps, shareware like YouTube downloader is more professional and easy to use when downloading HD YouTube video and downloading YouTube channel, there is built-in HD video converter there, you do not need any additional video converter software.

But you have to pay to get full version and download software to install.

Search YouTube HD videos

You can search all HD videos from YouTube with built-in browser under the tab of “Detect”.

Grab and download HD Videos from YouTube

Click on videos you searched, you will able to download it, and it support adding URL of YouTube video, if there is HD Model, it will download HD video from YouTube, but you can choose to download standard quality YouTube videos, the file size will be much smaller.

Get YouTube HD Downloader from CENT.com

Ok, this all we talking about how to grab HD video from YouTube, maybe there are more choices, welcome to comment below.