How to Download a YouTube Video: Three Easy Methods

YouTube is the video platform par excellence, there are almost countless videos that exist on the platform and there are times when we have liked one of those videos so much, we have found it so useful or we want to take it to complement our own content that we need to download .

The problem is that Google, the owner of this platform, does not want it to be done and that is why there is no tool to download videos on YouTube, and there are no applications in the PlayStore that do it. However, this does not mean that it cannot be done, in fact, there are several apps and services that have been designed for it and that is why today we are going to teach you how to use three of them.

What these platforms have in common is that they are free and quite fast when it comes to downloading videos from YouTube.

ClipConverter

ClipConverter website

The first of the tools that we are going to talk about today is ClipConverter, although its appearance is somewhat outdated, it works on computers, tablets and smartphones in a very effective way.

To download a video we have to follow these steps:

1. Open the website of

2. Copy and paste the address of the video that we want to download in the Multimedia Address section.

3. Choose the format and conversion options.

4. Click continue and wait for the conversion to finish and you will be able to download the video.

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You can choose between different formats and sizes, in the vast majority of videos it is best to select the default options.

Youzik

Youzik website

In the case, for whatever reason, that the first option has not convinced you, the Youzik website can also be another viable option. The truth is that its operation is almost identical to ClipConverter with the difference that it has fewer options to choose from when it comes to formats.

Its operation is as follows:

1. Go to the page of

2. Copy and paste the URL of the video that we want to download in the search bar.

3. Choose if we want the download in MP4 or MP3, since we want the video we will have to select the MP4 option.

4. The next thing is to hit Download MP4 and the video will start downloading.

Download via VLC

VLC Media Player app

The next and last option may seem the most complicated of all, but we are going to explain it to you so that, with this app, which the vast majority have on their computers, you know how to download a YouTube video in a few simple steps.

The application in question is VLC Media Player, and if you have ever downloaded and played a video on your computer, it is most likely that you have seen it from this app, since it is pre-installed on most PC devices.

To download a video we have to:

Steps to follow to download a video from VLC

1. Copy the URL of the video we want to grab and open the VLC app.

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2. Within the app, go to the Media tab and look for the Open network location option.

3. Copy the URL address of the video you want to download in the search bar that appears.

4. When the video opens, click on the Tools tab and then click on Multimedia Information.

5. Here, we just need to copy the Place link and paste it into our browser.

6. The video will open in the new tab, we will have to press the right mouse button and choose the option Save video as…

And so we can save the YouTube video in a folder. This is possible because you have removed the video from the platform so it no longer has the download protections of this app.

These are three ways with which you can download and save a video that was on YouTube for the use that you want.

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