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YouTube makes uploading videos like shooting fish in a barrel. Downloading them is some other story altogether. Hither's how you tin can download any video you've e'er uploaded to YouTube.

How to Download a Single YouTube Video

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

Virtually the height of the list, click the "YouTube Studio" option.

Choose "Videos" from the sidebar on the left.

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Hover over any video to bring up a menu. Click "Options," at the finish of the carte (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. Just if you lot have a library of hundreds, perhaps thousands of uploaded videos, there'due south a better way.

How to Download Multiple All Your YouTube Videos at In one case

To download all your YouTube videos at once, head over to Google Takeout. Hither, you lot can access all of your Google data. You lot can export everything from Android configuration files to your search history all from 1 place.

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Click "Deselect All," assuming it's just YouTube videos you're after.

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Scroll to the lesser of the page. At that place you lot'll detect "YouTube and YouTube Music." Bank check the box next to this option.

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

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Check or uncheck what y'all'd like to save. In this example, we'll choose "Deselect All," and just check the choice at the bottom for "Videos." Click "OK" to shut the window.

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Click the "Side by side Step" button.

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Cull your delivery method and your export frequency. Google can send yous a download link for your videos, or there's the selection to automatically stow them away inside of Google Drive, Dropbox, or other cloud storage services. You can also choose to "Export Once" or "Export Every ii Months For 1 year" from this menu.

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Cull a file type and the size of your download. If yous accept several videos, you have the option to split them into files as small as 1GB. File types include .nada and .tgz.

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Click the "Create Export" button to finish. Google will set up the videos and offering yous a download link.

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