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YouTube Downloaders

YouTube only allow users to view video on the site but if you want to download a video to be able to view when you are offline or on some other device that doesn't have support for YouTube you have to use a special utility to download and save that file.

  1. The lightweight, free and open source YouTube experience for Android.
  2. Augmentable with front-ends such as Youtube-DLG , youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube and a hundreds other sites.
  4. Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube.
  5. FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisments and prevent Google tracking from you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
  6. Youtube-DLG is a program to download videos from YouTube and a other sites.

    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.4, released in July 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website. A well-maintained fork can also be found here: https://github.com/oleksis/youtube-dl-gui

  7. FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously.
  8. Android, BSD, Linux, and Windows open source multimedia download manager.

    Discontinued

    Last updated: 2021.5.5 (Windows version), 2020.1.9 (Linux version).

  9. 4k Video Downloader allows to download video, audio, subtitles, channels and playlists from YouTube in high quality and to save it on your computer. This program is free for downloading videos and playlists of no more than 25 videos.
  10. DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video, audio, and image files from many sites.
  11. ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion and many other online video sites.

    Bundleware

    The default Windows installer contains Opencandy. A version with no third-party offers is available in Download options.

  12. yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project.

  13. Open Video Downloader (youtube-dl-gui)

    • Free • Open Source
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • FFmpeg
    • youtube-dl
    • Electron / Atom Shell
    • Node.JS
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    A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js.
  14. Persepolis Download Manager is utility for download easier and faster with aria2 and improved it.

    Discontinued

    last updated: Sep 17, 2019 (official download page):
    https://github.com/persepolisdm/persepolis/releases

  15. Tartube is a GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3.
  16. Youtube Video and Audio Downloader is an open-source project, downloading Youtube videos (using Firefox download manager) in all available formats (FLV, MP4, WebM, and 3GP) with video quality of your choice.