What is the best way to download YouTube videos for free?

Everyday, you usually watch videos on Youtube. It takes a long time and you want to save time by downloading these videos to your computer but no one showed you. Of course, I am here and help you right now. Remember that you should read the whole answer.

The Best Way: Download youtube videos with iVideoMate Video Downloader.

Use iVideoMate Video Downloader to download ordinary videos, YouTube playlists, YouTube subscriptions, YouTube game videos, etc. from YouTube. iVideoMate Video Downloader has a built-in powerful video format converter, which can save youtube to various desired formats, Youtube save to MP4, Youtube Save to Mp3, youtube Save to webm and many other common formats.

How to use iVideoMate Video Downloader？

• Step 1. Download and install
• Step 2. Open youtube and find the video page that needs to be downloaded
• Step 3. Copy the URL of the video
• Step4. Start iVideoMate Video Downloader, click "Paste URL" to start downloading.

Method 2: Replace "https: // www." with the "ss" in the address bar while watching Youtube

• Step 1: First visit YouTube homepage, search for Video to download. Now the address bar will display the URL of the Video.
• Step 2: In the address bar replace "https: // www." with "ss" after the word YouTube as shown in the picture below and press Enter (remember to remove the dot after www).
• Step 3: At this time, the system will automatically switch your page to the intermediate website to download video, allowing us to download videos for free. Here you will see the Video name, time and YouTube link, and the right is the Download link.

Note: I recommend that you do not select the Download button but click the More button to select the file format you want to download, there are many formats for you to choose, if you want to download high quality video, click on the format Highest resolution to download videos to your phone.

Method 3：VLC Player

This method will work for Linux devices as well as the Apple Macbook and Windows PC. We all have used the VLC player at some point of their life and it’s an open-source video player. You must have watched your favorite videos on VLC player but today, you can even download the videos from YouTube. So, let’s start following the steps mentioned in the bullets below!

• Open the video on YouTube that you want to download and copy its link
• At the top of the address bar, and paste the video location which will automatically copy the URL
• Open the VLC
• Click on media and go to open network stream Paste the URL in the box and play the video Click on play or open button
• Copy the link from the bottom through the codec information from the tools
• Past this URL and click on the enter button