Downloading Tutorials from YouTube?

[jparker402]

There is a tutorial (or two) on YouTube that I would like to download to watch while I am with my wife at the nursing home. I would watch them via wifi, but the nursing home's wifi is horribly slow - and I do mean horribly! So I thought I would try to download the tutorial so I could watch it smoothly. But I don't know how to download from YouTube. I may have found a way (something about putting an "ss" between the www. and the title in the url) but when I just did that it looked like the machine wanted me to download some program. Afraid of malware, thought I would ask here to see how to proceed. Must admit I have not looked for a Mac Store app; will do that while waiting for some kind souls to help. Thanks!!

 

[danny_w]

I use the iSkysoft utility and it works great. There is a free version and a paid version with more features. They both work for YouTube videos.

 

[KALLT]

If it is just for two videos, there are tons of websites that do this for you. You can find them with a web search.

ClipGrab is a decent and free GUI option and for the command line I recommend youtube-dl, which you can install via Homebrew.

 

[jparker402]

Will check these in a bit as time allows. Off now to see my wife. I did fid a wikihow site that talks to (among other things) downloading using the VLC player, which I have. Unfortunately, so far I can't find the things to click that they talk to. Did get the video playing, but trying to find media menus, network steams, and codec info, etc, it quit.

 

[Fishrrman]

Safari extensions:
- Click to flash
- Fastest Tube

 

[jparker402]

Had eventual success from something called Ummy.net (?) though it was mostly by trial and error. And discovered that it was free only for a one time shot; any additional is pay. And it was not as intuitively obvious as I need. So will look for something else. Took a quick peek last night at "Click to Flash" and "Fastest Tube". Will have to check more; they seem a bit complicated, as I remember. But then I am fairly dense with such things.

 

[danny_w]

https://www.iskysoft.com/free-mac-video-downloader.html

Totally free, works wonderfully, very easy to use. Don't mess with the complicated workarounds. They also have a paid version which adds more features but for what you want this is an everyday utility worth having IMHO.

 

[jparker402]

https://www.iskysoft.com/free-mac-video-downloader.html

Totally free, works wonderfully, very easy to use. Don't mess with the complicated workarounds. They also have a paid version which adds more features but for what you want this is an everyday utility worth having IMHO.[/QUOTEDanny, I tried iskysoft before I latched onto. Ummy, but I couldn't get it to download

https://www.iskysoft.com/free-mac-video-downloader.html

Totally free, works wonderfully, very easy to use. Don't mess with the complicated workarounds. They also have a paid version which adds more features but for what you want this is an everyday utility worth having IMHO.

Danny, I tried iskysoft first, before I latched onto ummy. But I could not get it to work (I think). After I pressed download, it just appeared to sit there not doing anything. Admittedly I am still more use to Windows, so find it hard to determine whether a number of things on OS are actually working. Nothing appeared to be downloading so I gave up and moved on. Any suggestions?

Hmm. Just found a YouTube tutorial on iskysoft. It may be that it didn't download because I did not reset the security to allow downloading from a non-Apple approved site. I take it that no one has any malware from iskysoft? Okay to deselect that security feature?

 

[Zazoh]

I'm a subscriber of YouTube, no adds and the ability to save files for offline viewing or listening. Their library of music is 3-4 times the amount of music of Spotify or Apple so I've found it to be an all around better solution. So, there is always that as a non-free option as well. In addition you get subscription to Google Music too. If you are not a music streamer and like ads, then there is no reason to use that as a solution with so many good choices above.