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

How to Download a Single YouTube Video

From the YouTube homepage, click your profile image at the top-right corner of the screen. If yous don't run across your Google profile image, y'all'll demand to sign in.

Virtually the top of the list, click the "YouTube Studio" option.

Cull "Videos" from the sidebar on the left.

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Hover over any video to bring up a menu. Click "Options," at the terminate of the carte du jour (the three vertical dots).

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

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For those who want to download a single video or two, this is all you demand. But if y'all have a library of hundreds, maybe thousands of uploaded videos, there's a meliorate 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 tin 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'southward only YouTube videos you lot're after.

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Gyre to the bottom of the page. In that location you'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 listing of the files you tin consign.

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

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Click the "Adjacent Footstep" button.

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Cull your delivery method and your consign frequency. Google can transport you a download link for your videos, or there's the option to automatically stow them away inside of Google Bulldoze, Dropbox, or other deject storage services. You tin also choose to "Export One time" or "Export Every 2 Months For 1 year" from this menu.

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Choose a file type and the size of your download. If y'all accept several videos, you have the choice to split them into files as small as 1GB. File types include .zero and .tgz.

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Click the "Create Export" push to finish. Google will prepare the videos and offer y'all a download link.

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YouTube doesn't offer an official way to download other people's YouTube videos—not unless yous desire to download them offline in the YouTube app to watch them later. That requires a YouTube Premium subscription.