YouTube videos are meant to be watched on YouTube only, but sometimes you might have a valid reason to download the videos, for example:
But first before downloading any videos from YouTube, you should know that you will be breaking YouTube's terms of service in doing so, it's clearly stated under section 5 Your Use of Content :
You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that 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.
So if you don't have a valid reason to download YouTube videos then it's best to not do so and keep watching the videos on YouTube only.
There are many programs to save YouTube videos, some of of these programs must be installed on your device, usually these programs are different for each operating system like Windows, macOS, Android and others, an easier way is to use an online service to help you download the videos, SaveTheVideo.com is one of these services which doesn't require any software installation that makes it possible be used on any device, below we list multiple methods to download YouTube videos to your device using SaveTheVideo.com .
You can simply copy the video link (URL) from the address bar of your browser and follow these steps:
To download a YouTube video or playlist on Windows or macOS while on YouTube:
Or you can use our bookmarklet and while watching a YouTube video you can click on the bookmark to access SaveTheVideo.com and download or convert the video you were watching.
To install our bookmarklet simply drag and drop this button to your bookmarks bar.
When you click this bookmark it will open SaveTheVideo.com with the link of the video you were watching so you download or convert the video.
On Android you can download YouTube videos by sharing them to this web application:
This is not limited to YouTube, you can share content from any other application like Twitter or Facebook to download the videos to your device.
Sometimes you want to listen to a YouTube video only without watching it, it could be a podcast, a talk, or any other video content that you might want to listen to only, in this case you can convert the video on YouTube to MP3 or any other audio format, but converting to the MP3 format is the most popular because of the wide support of MP3 on almost any media player, smartphone, TV, tablet and many other devices.
YouTube serves the highest quality video and audio formats separated, in this case if you download the highest quality video directly it's going to be without audio, but on SaveTheVideo.com you can merge the video and audio formats together to download the highest quality video from YouTube (720p, 1080p, 4K):