The Internet is a boon for growth, both personal and professional. Your message can reach anywhere in the world with the help of the internet.
YouTube is one of the most important apps we use on a daily basis. There is a plethora of variety of videos, ranging from educational, cooking, documentaries on social issues, news updates, songs, movies, a different genre of shows.
Surfing on YouTube during a long journey, or during that metro ride after long office hours can lighten your head with the videos you watch or the songs you listen to on YouTube.
The only glitch that keeps you from the content on YouTube is poor internet connectivity issues. However, YouTube seems to have fixed this issue for us as it has introduced the offline feature.
The offline feature is a saviour for the boring metro rides back home, as you may watch and surf on YouTube on your iOS or Android device. In 2014, YouTube came up with a solution for access to the content while the user is facing connectivity issues.
While the user is in a good network area, he may save the videos for watching later during poor internet connectivity. If you have travelling plans, you can save the songs to play when you lose connection so that your journey doesn't become boring and the songs go on with your mood.
The downloads can be made when you are in the network of a strong Wi-Fi range or good mobile data connectivity. When you open the video, right below the video there are options which include 'Like', 'Dislike', 'Share', and 'Download' and 'Save'.
This feature has one drawback, that is, it is supported by the Ad-feature, wherein you'll have to wait till the advertisements are completed for enjoying the video you have downloaded. However, the content that is popular in India is available for offline viewing after it is saved into downloads.
If a video is downloaded by a user, it is accessible to play without internet network connectivity for up to 48 hours only.
After that, the users need an active and working internet connection for re-syncing the video. While downloading videos from YouTube, the user should make sure that he does not infringe on any copyrights of the content creators of YouTube.
One of the few alternatives includes the Premium version of YouTube which is accessible in countries like the UK and US wherein the user can download the content and watch it later.
Downloading a Video from YouTube for Offline Viewing
Follow the below-mentioned steps to know how to download the videos for offline streaming
- 1Open the YouTube app on your Android or iOS device.
- 2Search for the video you want to view, on the search tab of the app.
- 3You will spot a 'add to offline' option below the video. Click on the option.
- 4After selecting the offline option, a dialogue box pops up with the options of resolution.
- 5Options of resolution - Low (144p) 4MB, Medium (360p) 5MB, HD (720p) 16MB based on the space utilized and the quality of video.
- 6The video is saved.
- 7Open the Home tab.
- 8Select the Account Tab, and you can spot it on the right side; it looks like a human body icon.
- 9Under the Account Tab, you will see a section of 'Available Offline'.
- 10As you scroll down, you will spot 'Saved Videos', click on it.
- 11Your screen will now show the videos you have saved for offline streaming.
Use KeepVid for Downloading a Video from YouTube Offline
There are various websites that help you download the video from YouTube, one of which is KeepVid as you copy the link from the address bar and then KeepVid helps you to download further. Below-mentioned are the steps you need to follow
- 1Open the YouTube side on your web browser.
- 2Open the video which you want to download and copy the link which is available in the address bar of your web browser.
- 3Now open the KeepVid website.
- 4Paste the link you had copied from YouTube under the 'URL' box on KeepVid at the bottom of the page.
- 5On the right side of the link you posted, there is a download button. Click on download.
- 6KeepVid runs on Java Script. Hence the browser will prompt a permission dialogue box on your screen to run this application.
- 7Press, 'yes', or 'run'.
- 8There are various advertisements which prompt options like, 'Play now' or 'Download', make sure you don't click on these.
- 9As the process of download completes, you can access the link.
- 10Right-click on the link and save the file. You may now access the file in the MP4 file format.
How To Watch YouTube Videos Offline On PC
Download Using Premium
YouTube Premium helps you stream and download videos along with accessing the benefit of playing music in the background. Below-mentioned are the steps you need to follow
- 1Downloading videos using YouTube Premium, open the app on YouTube.
- 2Open the video you want to download for offline streaming.
- 3Scroll down, and you will spot a 'Download' option, click on it.
- 4Your video is now stored, and the download option will change to a blue tick, in case you want to remove it from the section of downloads, press on the blue tick and the video will be removed from the download store.
Download from SaveFrom
There are various websites that help you download the video from YouTube, one of which is SaveFrom as you copy the link from the address bar and then SaveFrom helps you to download further. Below-mentioned are the steps you need to follow
- 1A free website, for offline YouTube streaming on PC.
- 2Open the YouTube side on your web browser.
- 3Open the video which you want to download and copy the link which is available in the address bar of your web browser.
- 4Now open SaveFrom website.
- 5Paste the link you had copied from YouTube under the 'URL' box on SaveFrom at the bottom of the page.
- 6On the right side of the link you posted, there is a download button. Click on download.
The drawback of SaveFrom, you can only download the 720p version.
Download from Bitdownloader
There are various websites that help you download the video from YouTube, one of which is Bitdownloader as you copy the link from the address bar. Below-mentioned is the steps you need to follow- A free website, for offline YouTube streaming on PC.
- 1Open the YouTube side on your web browser.
- 2Open the video which you want to download and copy the link which is available in the address bar of your web browser.
- 3Now open Bitdownloader website.
- 4Paste the link you had copied from YouTube under the 'URL' box on Bitdownloader at the bottom of the page.
- 5On the right side of the link you posted, there is a download button. Click on download.
You can download a high-quality video with this browser extension. Sometimes, when you download videos from these web browser extensions, they might get saved in the PC in a format that might not be supported, and the technology has brought solutions for the same.
You can change the format of the video using the 'Freemake and Any Video Convertor' and then save it on your PC. You can further download and install VLC player, in order to play a video in a video format which is suitable for your PC.
You can also download videos on your PC using an app on the desktop, one of the apps which are mostly recommended is YouTube by Click.
This interface is one of the easiest to use as the updates come in regularly, and the quality of downloads is high resolution, and you can download the whole playlist or more. An alternative is suggested as we include iTubeGo in the list as it offers an interface that can download 4k videos and playlists.
But these two options are paid, at $9.99 and $29.95 respectively. The free alternatives include the 'WinX YouTube Downloader', the process is identical as mentioned above, copy the link address of the YouTube video you want to download, paste the URL video of the app, and select the option of download.
Conclusion
We hope that our article finds a useful source for you, as we aim to deliberate on various ways to download videos when there is no internet connection network.
The traditional way of saving videos on the YouTube app itself is considered as one of the easiest, and the methods which require you to copy (Ctrl+C) paste (Ctrl+V) the URL helps you download videos in different formats.
Once you download videos on your device, you may access it anytime and anywhere as these files are saved in your device for instances like poor internet connectivity.
