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Old 31st Oct 2018, 03:34
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Downloading YouTube Videos

Can anyone advise me of the best / easiest way to download videos from YouTube. I'm currently using the free version YouTube Downloader (YTD) but this now only permits me to download one video at a time, to download subsequent videos I have to restart my computer.
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Can anyone advise me of the best / easiest way to download videos from YouTube. I'm currently using the free version YouTube Downloader (YTD) but this now only permits me to download one video at a time, to download subsequent videos I have to restart my computer.
Go to https://youtubedownloader.com/
You will find what you want there,works well for me.

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I've used ClipGrab for the last 18 months or so on Windows 7 & 10 desktop machines. Quite happy with it so far. Certainly no need to restart after a download is finished.

https://clipgrab.org/

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4K Video Downloader allows downloading videos, playlists, channels and subtitles from YouTube, etc. Easy!

https://www.4kdownload.com/

https://www.4kdownload.com/products/...ideodownloader
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I use DLNow. Works ok and downloads multiple videos

https://www.dlnowsoft.com
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Many thanks everyone, I've downloaded "clipgrab" and it's working great, very much like YTD in fact.
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A bit late in the day, but I was introduced to UMMY a year or two ago. Free download, downloads YouTube video and/or audio (MP4, MP3 etc) easily managed by a simpleton, can't recommend it highly enough. You launch a YouTube video, open UMMY and that video is selected already for download, you just select the format you want and download. As many as you like in one session.

PS I've just bought a new desktop, and after writing the above I went to download Ummy. I use Chrome, and for the 3rd/4th time in as many days Chrome blocked the software download, accusing it of being malware. It seems to me that Chrome now does this for any software that MS does not supply. So I tried to download Firefox, same result. So I opened Edge, and used that to download Firefox (no problem about malware!!) and used FF to download Ummy.

So, the usual MS-generated fury at their stupid antics, and a good laugh at defeating them so easily. I guess that Edge might well have allowed Ummy to download, so getting Firefox might have been unnecessary.

Is this a known problem with Microsoft and Chrome? Ummy has been downloaded 17m++ times, according to its website. I use a very good malware blocker and it allowed Ummy. I would believe anything of Microsoft.

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It seems to me that Chrome now does this for any software that MS does not supply.
Unlikely. Chrome is a Google product, not Microsoft.
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Unlikely. Chrome is a Google product, not Microsoft.
Funny you should mention that.

Microsoft have just announced that they are switching their Edge browser to be Chromium based.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitcho...r-ios-updated/
Last week, Microsoft confirmed that Chromium is being adopted for Edge on the desktop. By adopting Chromium, Microsoft believes it will create better web compatibility for its customers and reduce fragmentation of the web for developers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)
Chromium is an open-source web browserproject started by Google. It provides the core codebase for Google Chrome and many other browsers.[5] While Chrome shares the majority of code and features with Chromium, there are some differences.
Essentially, Microsoft say they are giving up on developing their own browser from scratch and are switching to the open source project Chromium, which was started by Google, as the basis for their browser.

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Installed 4KDownloader on my Mac and was glad to get rid of it as I found it too intrusive.

Downloaded both ClipGrab and Ummy but after installing ClipGrab I was happy enough that it's well behaved that I didn't need to bother with Ummy. Thanks for the tip FOR.

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And one day Microsoft will apologise wholeheartedly for the years of bad tech it has imposed upon this planet.
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