If you read this article, probably you have tried many different ways to download youtube videos. Let me guess. None of them works very well. Let’s cut to the chase. Today, I would introduce two most efficient and easiest way to download youtube videos.
- Use TamperMonkey Script
TamperMonkey is my favorite chrome extension and you could find tons of scripts in greasyfork . The install step is very easy, you just need to go to chrome extension store, search for tampermonkey extension. Then we could go to greasyfork to search for a good youtube downloader script, here, I would recommend this downloader. The final step would be just open youtube, choose a video you would like to download, it would look just like the screenshot below.
2. Github Repo
This method is my favorite one, it might need some time to get used to it. After you are familiar with the process, it works like a charm. The repo I used is the most popular one, which is the youtube-dl. If you are familiar with the github, you could skip this part, the details are all covered in the repo documentation. If you are not familiar, it is still pretty straight forward.
First step, git clone the repo to your local directory. You need to install the repo based on the os you are using, the details are covered in the documentation. There is a little trick here, since youtube-dl separately download videos and audios, you need to merge them together. I would share my codes here.
alias youtube=youtube-dl -f — cookie-update ‘bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio’ — merge-output-format mp4Here, I alias youtube to this command, it would simplifier my process. You could put it into bash_profile if you are using mac os. Then you just need to activate it by using following command.
source ~/.bash_profileThen you could start downloading youtube videos, choose a youtube video and copy paste its embed link.
Use the alias command you defined before and the link you get, violà, you will have the following command.
youtube https://youtu.be/SX_ViT4Ra7kJust hit the enter, you would get a 1080p lemon song.
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