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You want to download video from any website, so you can watch it later or store it. But it’s frustrating that most sites for sharing videos don’t have a way to download videos. There is no way to download all videos from a site at once, but if you use the three methods in this article, you should be able to download almost all videos from any site.
When you see a download button, it’s easy to download videos. Copyright protection means that most video sharing sites don’t let you download videos. You’re in luck. Even if a website doesn’t technically let you download videos, there are many free tools you can use to save videos from any website, including YouTube, as long as you know the URL. We mentioned below are the ways to download video from any website.
Ways to download video from any website
Download Videos Using ClipGrab (Windows, Mac)
If you’re on a desktop computer or laptop, you can use tools like ClipGrab to download videos from any website:
- Open this page in your browser. Download the installer for your Windows or macOS device.
- Install the setup. On Mac, if it cannot verify the file for malware, head to Settings > Privacy and Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway.
- Once installed, open ClipGrab and paste the video URL in the box.
- Wait for it to fetch video information. Once done, select the quality and click Grab this Clip.
Download Streaming Videos Using SmallSEOTools Website
Another tool that lets you download videos from the web is available from SmallSEOTools. It does not, however, let you download YouTube videos. To use it, do the following:
- Open your browser and visit smallseotools.com/online-video-downloader.
- Paste the website link on the given text field.
- Click on Download Video.
- Hit the Download button next to the quality you want to save the video in.
Hack Your Browser To Download a Video
You can’t see the code that makes up a webpage unless you look behind the scenes, and every video you watch comes from a specific source. If you can find the source link in the code, you might be able to get to a link where you can download the file.
- Open Firefox and go to about:config. Treat that like a URL, so enter it into the navigation area at the top of the browser.
- Right-click in an empty space and go to New > String.
- Name it general.useragent.override and then put this code there:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) FxiOS/1.0 Mobile/12F69 Safari/600.1.4
- Open a new tab and find the YouTube video you want to download.
- Start the video and let it play for a few seconds. If there’s an ad, let that finish first.
- Right-click the video and choose Inspect Element.
- In the new window that opens, find <div id=”player” and click the arrow to its left to expand it, and then do the same for <div id=”movie_player” below it, and <div class=”html5-video-container” below that.
- Below that is a long URL following src=”. Double-click that to see the full URL, right-click it, and then choose Copy.
- Open a new tab in Firefox (or any browser) and enter that into the navigation bar.
- Right-click the video in that tab and choose Save Video As.
- Download videoplayback.mp4 to your computer to save the YouTube video. You can rename it if you want.
- Download videoplayback.mp4 to your computer to save the YouTube video. You can rename it if you want.
- Return to the tab with the user agent setting, right-click the new string you made, and select Reset to return Firefox to desktop mode.
FAQ
How can I download a video that is not available to download from a website?
A video downloader tool is the easiest way to save a video from a website that doesn’t have a clear download button. These are programmes or web apps that are made to search for and get videos from webpages. Catch.tube is one of the best out there.
Is downloading a video from a website illegal?
Copyright laws in the United States say that it is against the law to make a copy of content without the owner’s permission. This is true for copies you keep for yourself as well as copies you give away or use to make money.