With millions of videos hosted, YouTube is one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Although the platform does not allow video downloads, there are various third-party tools that enable downloading YouTube videos on our iPhone, iPad, or Mac in a few steps.
However, it is important to bear in mind that downloading videos and music without permission violates copyright laws and YouTube's terms of service. Downloading videos on YouTube can be very useful, though, for those that we have uploaded ourselves and wish to recover from the same platform.
How to Download YouTube Videos in a Matter of Seconds and Without Third-party Apps
There are several tools that allow downloading YouTube videos, but in this article, we will focus on two online resources that can be easily used both on our Mac and on our iPhone or iPad.
The first resource we can use is y2mate.com, which allows us to copy and paste the URL of a YouTube video and download it in different qualities, including 1080p HD quality. Additionally, this tool also allows us to download only the audio in MP3 format.
For even quicker access to this tool, we can add "pp" after "www.youtube" and before the ".com" in any video we are watching to start the download with a single touch. For example, if we are watching a video on www.youtube.com/video…, we can simply edit the URL to: www.youtubepp.com/video… Pressing Enter, the download buttons will appear directly at our disposal.
How to Download Entire Playlists or Channels
If we wish to download all the videos from a channel or a YouTube playlist, it is much more convenient to do all the downloads at once. In this case, we can use the video download service from youtubemultidownloader.net, which allows us to download entire lists or channels.
We can visit the website and paste the URL of a channel or a playlist, but it is even easier to use a shortcut in the URL. Simply add "1s" after the URL of the video, channel, or playlist we want to download. For example, if the URL is www.youtube.com/playlist…, we change it to www.youtube1s.com/playlist… to see the download links directly. In all videos, however, the maximum download quality is 720p.
Although the best idea is to keep a local copy of our YouTube uploaded videos and also save the original files, in some cases, especially if they are old videos, downloading may be the only option to recover them from our own channel. We also have options at our disposal.
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