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YouTube makes uploading videos easy. Downloading them is another story altogether. Hither's how you tin can download any video you lot've ever uploaded to YouTube.

How to Download a Single YouTube Video

From the YouTube homepage, click your profile epitome at the top-correct corner of the screen. If you don't encounter your Google contour image, you lot'll demand to sign in.

Nigh the height of the list, click the "YouTube Studio" pick.

Choose "Videos" from the sidebar on the left.

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Hover over whatsoever video to bring up a carte. Click "Options," at the finish of the menu (the iii 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 single video or ii, this is all y'all need. But if y'all have a library of hundreds, perhaps thousands of uploaded videos, in that location's a better manner.

How to Download Multiple All Your YouTube Videos at Once

To download all your YouTube videos at in one case, head over to Google Takeout. Here, you lot can access all of your Google data. You can consign everything from Android configuration files to your search history all from one place.

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Click "Deselect All," assuming it'due south merely YouTube videos you're afterward.

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Whorl to the bottom of the folio. At that place you'll find "YouTube and YouTube Music." Check the box next to this choice.

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

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

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Click the "Next Step" push.

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Choose your delivery method and your export frequency. Google tin can ship you a download link for your videos, or there'southward the option to automatically stow them away inside of Google Drive, Dropbox, or other deject storage services. You tin can likewise choose to "Export In one case" or "Export Every ii Months For 1 year" from this card.

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Choose a file blazon and the size of your download. If y'all accept several videos, y'all have the option to divide them into files as small as 1GB. File types include .zip and .tgz.

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

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