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YouTube makes uploading videos like shooting fish in a barrel. Downloading them is another story altogether. Here'south how you tin download whatsoever video you've always uploaded to YouTube.

How to Download a Single YouTube Video

From the YouTube homepage, click your contour image at the pinnacle-right corner of the screen. If you lot don't see your Google contour image, you'll need to sign in.

Near the top of the listing, click the "YouTube Studio" choice.

Choose "Videos" from the sidebar on the left.

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Hover over whatever video to bring upward a menu. Click "Options," at the end of the carte du jour (the iii vertical dots).

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Click "Download." YouTube should immediately start to download an mp4 version of your uploaded video.

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For those who want to download a single video or two, this is all yous need. But if you lot accept a library of hundreds, maybe thousands of uploaded videos, there's a better way.

How to Download Multiple All Your YouTube Videos at Once

To download all your YouTube videos at once, head over to Google Takeout. Here, you can access all of your Google data. Yous can export everything from Android configuration files to your search history all from i place.

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Click "Deselect All," bold it's just YouTube videos yous're after.

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Scroll to the bottom of the folio. There you'll find "YouTube and YouTube Music." Check the box adjacent to this option.

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Click "All YouTube Data Included" to open up a list of the files you can export.

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Bank check or uncheck what yous'd like to salvage. In this example, we'll choose "Deselect All," and only check the option at the bottom for "Videos." Click "OK" to close the window.

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Click the "Next Stride" button.

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Choose your delivery method and your export frequency. Google tin can send y'all a download link for your videos, or there's the choice to automatically stow them away inside of Google Bulldoze, Dropbox, or other deject storage services. You can also cull to "Export Once" or "Export Every 2 Months For 1 year" from this menu.

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Choose a file blazon and the size of your download. If you have several videos, yous have the option to separate them into files equally small every bit 1GB. File types include .zip and .tgz.

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Click the "Create Export" push button to finish. Google volition prepare the videos and offer you a download link.

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YouTube doesn't offering an official style to download other people's YouTube videos—not unless you want to download them offline in the YouTube app to watch them later. That requires a YouTube Premium subscription.


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