Download YouTube Videos without any Software's and Browser Extensions

Downloading YouTube videos and audios is a fundamental play for internet Wiz's.

Sure, there are external tools out there to help you download YouTube videos And has many risk like malware, and Add's.

The software always prompts us to buy the premium version. It's a pain. Here's a way to download YouTube Videos Unaided and I'am gonna show it to you.

The catch is you’ll need a browser with a "Network" developer tool like modern IE or Chrome or Firefox, and an Internet connection setup where YouTube isn’t blocked.

My personal preference is Firefox, since it is compatible for most web testing and it can run even there a flaw in the system but this works even if you prefer one of the other two browsers.

I'm gonna show you two methods one short one and a long one

# Short Method:

This is the easiest method to download YouTube Videos

1. Goto www.Youtube.com

2. open your desired YouTube video

Pause the video and go to the video URL, Like the below pic

3. Delete "Http://www." in the beging of the URL and enter "ss" in front of your video link, like in the Pic.

Eg: Change " http://www.youtube.com/your video id" to "ssyoutube.com/your video Id".

4. then simply press "Enter".

Once you Press " Enter " The Page will be Redirected to "en.savefrom.net". Here you can see your video link and will have options to download this video as per your desired quality.

5. Click " download' After selecting your desired video quality.

Thats all enjoy all your favorite videos from YouTube without any external software's or extensions

# Long Method:

Limitations: Audio & video will be downloaded separately and should be combined using other softwares

Let’s check out the steps to download Media

1. Open Developer Tools in the browser and go to Network tool, or if you’re on Firefox press Ctrl + Shift + Q.

2. Click Media in the Network tool so that you’ll see only the HTTP requests made to media files, like audio and video files.

3. Browse to a YouTube video you want to download. You’ll start seeing the requests made by the YouTube page to the audio & video files in the Network-tool.

4. Hover the cursor over the Type column of each request in the tool and look at the media type:

• If you want the audio, look for "audio/mp4".

• If you want the video, then look for "video/mp4".

Note: If you’re using a browser that doesn’t segregate requests (like IE) or doesn’t list the requests made to the audio & video files in YouTube under "Media" (like Chrome), just search the term "audio" or "video" in the search bar in the Network tool.

5. Once you found a request with the wanted media type (it’ll be of the googlevideo.com domain), click on it, and copy the full URL from where it appears.

6. Paste the URL in the address bar, remove the range parameter in the query string and press Enter.

7. The video or audio will open, right-click on the page and select "Save As" to save the file.

8. If you want both the video and the audio, look for both with the steps above and put them together using any default media editor you have in your computer. It’s actually pretty easy and quick to do so (even with programs like Windows Movie Maker etc).

These are the two methods for downloading YouTube videos without the aid of other third party software's and extensions.

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