Systems like Download Accelerator Plus and RealDownloader manage video downloads speedily but these great free tools aren’t available for Linux.įortunately, there are some excellent free download managers for Linux out there. If you use a browser that has no extensions you can still download youtube videos by adding as a bookmark and copying the video URL to their website.Windows users enjoy a lot of options when they want to use a download manager.
It's worth mentioning that this extension: is completely safe and does not weight too much, unfortunately has less options in terms of formats and resolutions than ClipGrab, also has a wide range of video sites to download from, can also be used to download entire youtube playlists(also with audio-only option for your musics), download images from a web page and download audio files from a web page.
crx file for Chromium browsers or use that extension that allows you to install it from the Opera extensions store due to Google not wanting you to download youtube videos.)Įxtension that allows Chromium and partners to access the Opera version. is my personal favorite and it's available for Firefox and Chromium browsers(however you'll need to download the. Maybe that way it will use your proxy setings as well,but I'm not sure. If you don't want to install a special program you can also use browser extensions that do that. It is worth mentioning that ClipGrab: supports a lot of video websites and not just Youtube, that it can automatically detect when you copy a video URL to your clipboard and will give you a shortcut to your download, supports various video/audio formats and resolutions(yes,even 4K, but your download will obviously be a bit slower depending on the format and the resolution that you choose) ,can be configured to use your proxy settings. Once you click on the video that you want, you'll be taken to the "Downloads" tab, where you can configure the resolution and the format of the video that you want to download. In the first time you open CB you'll be in the "Search" tab of the program where you can directly search youtube videos. It will be listed under the "Multimedia" category on the Whisker Menu. Only GUIs First method: ClipGrabĪll you have to do to install it is search for "ClipGrab" on pamac and install the program from there.
This is a tutorial on how to download Youtube videos using a program called ClipGrab and a browser extension called Helper.