Youtube Playlist Download The Playlist

You can then click Add Selected to download the playlist videos.

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Recent changes in Firefox have broken extensions like DownThemAll, which used to be a handy way to download videos.

Like most cloud-based things, YouTube videos are ephemeralthey vanish all the time for all kinds of reasons.

The uploader might pull a video down, YouTube may remove a video in response to a copyright complaint (sometimes legitimate, sometimes not), and a video might disappear if it runs afoul of YouTubes ever-changing and seemingly haphazard standards for acceptable content.

For example, they may want to download short clips to use in their videos (honoring the doctrine of fair use, of course).

A friend of mine accidentally deleted the sizzle clip he slaps on the front of every video in iMovie, and he solved the problem by downloading one of his own videos from YouTube and extracting that clip.

Or, you may want to be able to play some YouTube videos in a situation where theres no Internet access.

There are several solutions on the Mac, and I review a few of them here.

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Youtube Playlist Install It From

You can use the curl command or rely on Homebrew, a command-line package manager that I strongly recommendrefer to Homebrews home page for a one-line command to install it from Terminal.

But all you really need to do to use it is to type youtube-dl URL in Terminal, where URL is the link to the desired YouTube video.

Type cd Downloads before running youtube-dl to download the video to your Downloads folder.

The first time I tried to download a video for this article, I received an error because I hadnt updated youtube-dl first.

Homebrew makes updating easy with the brew update youtube-dl command, which updates both youtube-dl and Homebrew itself, along with all the packages youtube-dl needs to function.

Use the Format drop-down menu to choose a format (Original is usually fine if you want video), and click Grab This Clip to download the video.

Downie also comes bundled with a Safari extension, which you enable in Safari Preferences Extensions.

Once you enable the extension, you can click the Downie icon in Safaris toolbar to download a video.

Unfortunately, QuickTime Player doesnt understand those files, so you need to use a more capable video player like IINA to view them.

As long as the SRT file is in the same directory as the video, it works automatically when you play the video in IINA.

Just drag the playlist URL into Downie and click Playlist to see all the available videos to download.

Download Youtube Playlist Mac