Download YouTube Videos With No External Tools or Extensions

Getting YouTube videos and audios is a fundamental job for netizens. Sure, presently there are external tools away there to help you download youtube videos although if you are irritated by the incessant advertisings, and have concerns regarding malware, perhaps it’s period to get started on downloading YouTube multimedia unaided.

The catch can be you’ll desire a browser using a "Network" developer tool just like modern IE or Stainless or Firefox, and a web connection setup where youtube isn’t blocked (get tips how to circumvent this kind of block in this post).

My own preference is Firefox, for reasons which can be clear at the conclusion of this post but this kind of works regardless if you like another one of the two browsers. Let’s see the steps.

How To Download Youtube Media

1. Open Developer Tools in the browser and go to Network tool, or if you’re on Firefox press Ctrl + Shift + Q.

2. Click Media in the Network tool so that you’ll see only the HTTP requests made to media files, like audio and video files.

3. Browse to a YouTube video you want to download. You’ll start seeing the requests made by the YouTube page to the audio & video files in the Network tool.

4. Hover the cursor over the Type column of each request in the tool and look at the media type:

• If you want the audio, look for "audio/mp4".
• If you want the video, then look for "video/mp4".

Note: If you’re using a browser that doesn’t segregate requests (like IE) or doesn’t list the requests made to the audio & video files in YouTube under "Media" (like Chrome), just search the term "audio" or "video" in the search bar in the Network tool.

5. Once you found a request with the wanted media type (it’ll be of the googlevideo.com domain), click on it, and copy the full URL from where it appears.

6. Paste the URL in the address bar, remove the range parameter in the query string and press.Enter

7. The video or audio will open, right-click on the page and select "Save As" to save the file.

8. If you want both the video and the audio, look for both with the steps above and put them together using any default media editor you have on your computer. It’s actually pretty easy and quick to do so (even with programs like the outmoded Windows Movie Maker).

Bonus Hack for Firefox

If you’re getting WEBM audio files instead of MP4 from YouTube (the web can only be played in a browser), disable your browser’s WEBM audio support, then YouTube will send the audio in MPEG4 format.

Type "about config" in the address bar, press,Enter click through any warning message and search for "the web

Find and double-click.media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled Its value will change to false and you’re set.