How to download YouTube videos to your PC for free

Download the VLC media player and install it on your system.

Open YouTube and copy the URL of the video you want to download.

Open VLC and click on the Media menu.

Select the “Open Network” option from the Media menu or press Ctrl+N.

Navigate to the “Network” tab and paste the YouTube video’s URL into the textbox.

Click on the “Open” button. This will start playing the video in the VLC multimedia player.

Once downloaded, head to the VLC’s playlist folder on your PC. You will find it at this location: Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\playlist in the C drive. You can then delete the youtube.lua file that wasn’t working.

Once the video file starts playing, you can select the tools option and choose to view the “Codec Information.”

Copy the location URL from the “Location” and paste it into a browser.

Right-click on the running video and select the “Save Video As” option.

Select the File menu from the toolbar and then hit the “Convert/Stream” option.

Select the “Save as File” option. Choose a destination where you want to save the file and hit the “Save” button.

Open ClipGrab and give it the required permissions.

Copy the URL of the YouTube video by right clicking and selecting the correct option.

Paste the video URL in ClipGrab.

Choose video quality and format, and then click on the “Grab this clip!” button.

Start the download by selecting the destination of the video and clicking on the “Save” option. You can monitor the download progress in the ClipGrab window. Once the download is complete, the video will be saved to the location you specified in the preferences.

You need to install the pytube library if you haven’t already. You can do this using pip:

Code: pip install pytube

Here’s an example Python script to download a YouTube video to your PC:

Code:
from pytube import YouTube

Replace ‘video_url’ with the URL of the YouTube video you want to download.

video_url = “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=your_video_id_here”

Create a YouTube object

yt = YouTube(video_url)

Choose the stream with the desired resolution and format

For example, you can select the highest resolution stream with the mp4 format like this:

stream = yt.streams.filter(progressive=True, file_extension=’mp4′).order_by(‘resolution’).desc().first()

Set the download path

download_path = “/path/to/your/download/folder/”

Download the video

stream.download(output_path=download_path)

print(“Download completed.”)

Make sure to replace “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=your_video_id_here” with the actual URL of the YouTube video you want to download and set the download_path to the directory where you want to save the video.

Save the script to a .py file and run it using a Python interpreter. The script will download the video to the specified directory.

When you run this script, it will start downloading the YouTube video to your preferred location.