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YouTube makes uploading videos easy. Downloading them is some other story altogether. Here'south how you tin download any video you've ever uploaded to YouTube.

How to Download a Unmarried YouTube Video

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

About the superlative of the list, click the "YouTube Studio" choice.

Cull "Videos" from the sidebar on the left.

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Hover over any video to bring up a card. Click "Options," at the terminate of the menu (the three 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 y'all need. But if you have a library of hundreds, perhaps thousands of uploaded videos, at that place'southward a improve way.

How to Download Multiple All Your YouTube Videos at Once

To download all your YouTube videos at once, head over to Google Takeout. Hither, you tin can access all of your Google data. Yous tin can export everything from Android configuration files to your search history all from one identify.

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

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Ringlet to the bottom of the folio. In that location you'll find "YouTube and YouTube Music." Check the box side by side to this option.

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

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Check or uncheck what you'd like to relieve. In this instance, nosotros'll choose "Deselect All," and just bank check the selection at the lesser for "Videos." Click "OK" to shut the window.

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Click the "Next Step" button.

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Choose your delivery method and your export frequency. Google can send y'all a download link for your videos, or at that place'due south the pick to automatically stow them away inside of Google Drive, Dropbox, or other deject storage services. You can also choose to "Export Once" or "Consign Every ii Months For 1 year" from this menu.

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Choose a file type and the size of your download. If you accept several videos, you have the pick to split up them into files as small-scale every bit 1GB. File types include .zip and .tgz.

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Click the "Create Consign" push to finish. Google will prepare the videos and offering you a download link.

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

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