You need to start playing the video in your browser ( arrow 1 on the image). Yes, the flash videos are literally a click away.Īfter installing IDM, a 'Download This Video' button pops up whenever you are watching a video anywhere in cyberspace (shown in the picture below). You can download all the flash embedded videos from almost any site with a single button click. First, what you need is the link to the extension.The best way of downloading videos is here. The official IDM download page is no help, as it does not list links to the extension. Most Chromium-based browsers, Vivaldi or Brave for example, support installing Chrome extensions, and you may use the Google Chrome version of the Internet Download Manager Integration Module in those browsers as well. Once done, visit YouTube and start playback of a video. You should see the IDM button on the page once you do if the button is not displayed, try reloading the page.

On YouTube, IDM displays all available quality options and you may pick one that you favor. Naturally, there are other options when it comes to the downloading of YouTube videos.Īll that is left then is to pick the download directory, or configure IDM to download the files immediately under Settings > Downloads. Not everyone wants to buy a download manager just to download videos from YouTube or other video sites.

For those, youtube-dl may be an alternative, but it is a command line application. Now You: do you download videos? If so, which program do you use? If you prefer a GUI, try one its frontends such as this one. There are graphical frontends available for youtube-dl in Windows, Linux, and Mac: YouTube-DLG for Windows, youtube-dl-gui for Linux, and MacYTDL and Get-It for Mac. The Windows and Linux frontends are pretty close to identical I’ve never used the Mac frontends.

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