How to Download YouTube Videos for Free
Almost every day in Our Country they announce the blocking of foreign sites, services and applications. It is possible that soon it will come to YouTube. We tell you how to download videos from this site for free to save them on your PC or phone

Some analysts predict the imminent closure of YouTube in the Federation after the video hosting began blocking media channels. Earlier, for users from the Federation, Google has already disabled the monetization of video hosting. bloggers can’t earn from ads and subscriptions, but on the other hand, users now watch ad-free videos. 

Be that as it may, the current state of affairs cannot be called normal. If the block occurs, s will no longer be able to post and view videos on this site. To protect yourself and not lose data, you can download them to your computer or phone. How to do this simply and for free, we understand this material.

How to Download YouTube Videos to Computer for Free

  1. Open a browser, go to YouTube and select the desired video.
  2. In the address bar, before “youtube”, type “ss” and press Enter.
  3. On the site that opens, select the resolution you need for the video and click on the “Download” field.
  4. Select the folder where you want to save the video.
  5. Wait for the video to fully download to your computer.

How to Download YouTube Videos to Phone for Free

Phones run on different operating systems, so there are many ways to download YouTube videos for free. For example, on Android, this can be done using the 4K Video Downloader app, and on iOS, through the Documents app. 

But there is one universal option that will work on any smartphone if the Telegram application is installed on it.

  1. Log in to the Telegram app and search for “videofrom_bot”.
  2. Find the video you want on YouTube and copy the link.
  3. Send a link to the video to the chat bot.
  4. Select the format you want to download and click “Download Video”.

How to download your videos from YouTube Studio

  1. Go to YouTube and click on your profile picture.
  2. Next, click on YouTube Studio and select “Video” from the panel.
  3. Hover over the desired video and click on the “Options” option (three dots).
  4. Click “Download” and select the folder where you want to save the video.

Popular questions and answers

Web development instructor Sofia Kostyunina answers the questions of the KP readers.

What threatens for downloading someone else’s content from Youtube?

Interestingly, by agreeing to the user agreement, anyone who publishes their content consents to its use and even modification by other persons. At the same time, YouTube expressly prohibits doing this literally in the next article of the same agreement.   

Where is the truth? And the truth is that in the entire existence of this platform, it has never sued anyone yet. Sounds pretty convincing, doesn’t it? Knowing this, you can download with confidence that even if downloading videos from YouTube is illegal, then the likelihood of being held accountable for this is lower than the likelihood of suffering from a direct hit by a meteorite.

Why does the downloaded video from Youtube play without sound?

With downloading videos from YouTube, there can hardly be any difficulties. However, they sometimes wait after downloading when it turns out that there is no sound in the video. Oddly enough, in the first place, such a problem is solved by the banal inclusion of an accidentally turned off sound or by checking the plug. 

You should also think about changing utilities and re-downloading the video. Did not help? Change the video resolution, because with some options, the sound is encoded into an unreproducible set of zeros and ones. Do you need this quality? Then download all possible codecs, they will pull out the sound from everywhere.

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