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YouTube makes uploading videos like shooting fish in a barrel. Downloading them is another story altogether. Here'due south how you tin download any video yous've ever uploaded to YouTube.

How to Download a Single YouTube Video

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

Nearly the meridian of the list, click the "YouTube Studio" option.

Choose "Videos" from the sidebar on the left.

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Hover over any video to bring upward a card. Click "Options," at the end of the bill of fare (the 3 vertical dots).

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Click "Download." YouTube should immediately commencement to download an mp4 version of your uploaded video.

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For those who want to download a unmarried video or two, this is all yous demand. But if you accept a library of hundreds, perhaps thousands of uploaded videos, at that place'southward a improve fashion.

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 lot tin can access all of your Google data. You can export everything from Android configuration files to your search history all from one place.

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Click "Deselect All," assuming it'due south but YouTube videos y'all're later on.

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Scroll to the lesser of the page. There y'all'll observe "YouTube and YouTube Music." Check the box next to this option.

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Click "All YouTube Data Included" to open a list of the files y'all can consign.

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Check or uncheck what you'd like to save. In this case, we'll choose "Deselect All," and just bank check the option at the bottom for "Videos." Click "OK" to shut the window.

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Click the "Side by side Footstep" push button.

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Cull your delivery method and your export frequency. Google can transport you a download link for your videos, or there's the option to automatically stow them away within of Google Drive, Dropbox, or other cloud storage services. Y'all tin can also choose to "Export In one case" or "Export Every two Months For 1 yr" from this menu.

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Choose a file type and the size of your download. If you take several videos, you take the selection to dissever them into files as modest as 1GB. File types include .cypher and .tgz.

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Click the "Create Export" button to finish. Google will fix the videos and offer you a download link.

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YouTube doesn't offer an official manner to download other people's YouTube videos—non unless yous want to download them offline in the YouTube app to lookout them afterwards. That requires a YouTube Premium subscription.