In this tutorial, you will learn how to download the video or the audio from YouTube using TubeNinja and savefrom.net . You will also see other alternative methods including a utility for Linux terminal users.
Using TubeNinja
The link concatenation method
This consist of adding a ‘dl’ to the YouTube link. Follow the steps below :
- Insert “dl” without the quotes in front of “youtube.com” within the link address: this should look like this:
https: // www.dlyoutube.com/watchVIDEO - Next press Enter. This will take you to the TubeNinja page :
https://www.tubeninja.net/?url=https://youtube.com/watchVIDEO
In the new window that appears, you have the options to either download the video or the audio:
- To download the video:
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- Click on the download icon. A new window will open with the video.
- Right click on the video and choose “Save video as …”.
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- To download the audio:
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- Click on the download icon. The converter page will open.
- Click on “Skip cutting”. This option allows to trim the audio.
- Wait for the file conversion to finish.
- Click on “Download”
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Alternative method
You can also copy and paste your youtube link in the input field that is shown in the middle of the homepage of tubeNinja. You would just have to click on Download.
Using savefrom.net
The link concatenation method
The method used by savefrom.net is almost the same as that of TubeNinja, with the difference that instead of adding “dl” , you would have to add “ss” instead. The example above would then read :
https:/ www.ss.youtube.com/watchVIDEO. This would take us to a page like the following:
Here you can download the video as follows:
- Click on “Download”.
- Right-click on the video and choose “Save video …”.
In the dropdown menu to the right of the green button that says “Download” you have other available options. You could for instance download the audio without having to download the video.
Savefrom extension
To make even easier, you can install the savefrom.net extension . Basically, what it does, is it adds the download options on any relevant Youtube video page, as you can see in the following snapshot:
Downloading a video using the extension above, is as simple as clicking the green button . The download will start instantaneously. You could also select among the available resolutions.
Read: How to download YouTube videos with VLC Media Player
Using JDownloader
JDownloader is an all-rounder app that is available for any operating system. Downloading video and audio from YouTube with JDownloader is very simple. Just follow the steps below :
- Download JDownloader on your computer and install it.
- Once installed, open up the page with the video you would want to download
- Copy the link from the address bar.
- Wait a few seconds. The link will appear in JDownloader.
- By clicking on the (+) button on the left, you will see all the available options: audio, video, photo or even subtitles. On the right, the format of each option.
- Right click on the file you want to download and choose «Add and start downloads».
- Wait till it completes.
Using youtube-dl on Linux terminal
This utility is for Linux terminal users. The youtube-dl tool can download Youtube videos from within the terminal. The steps are rather simple:
- Install youtube-dl. There is a version as a snap package, for which you would have to write the command :
sudo snap install youtube-dl - Once installed, execute it with the command :
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/YOURvideo - youtube-dl also has several format options to choose from: invoke the command below to list them out :
youtube-dl -F your_youtube_video_link
Or optionally, you can also use the flags below to automatically download the best available video and audio tracks available as a single file:
youtube-dl -f best your_youtube_video_link
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