Descargar vídeos de YouTube con Firefox

It's been more than 15 years since Jawed uploaded his «Me at the zoo»To what is today the nearly pop video platform on the planet. When we have an internet connectedness, there is no doubtfulness that it is best to visit the service from a web browser, but sometimes we want to encounter the content off-line. On the other mitt, there are videos that cannot be downloaded because their author does not permit it from the settings, only in this article we are going to show y'all how to download whatsoever video or audio from YouTube, and all from a browser like Firefox.

Before continuing I would like to brand something clear: what is explained hither is but valid for those who just want to use a web browser desktop to download any YouTube video. In add-on, it is probable that downloading some videos is something illegal, or at least illegal, so anybody should be responsible for their actions if they decide to follow what is explained in this tutorial. On the other mitt, the procedure is not the shortest: we have to download video and audio separately and so put it all together, something that tin likewise exist done from the browser.

Table of Contents

  • one Download whatsoever YouTube video with only the browser
    • ane.1 Merging video and audio
    • i.ii Join video and audio with VLC

Download any YouTube video with only the browser

If y'all are wondering why I decided to share this tutorial, it is partly because, equally I have explained, in that location are videos that cannot exist downloaded with services such as Tube Ninja. In addition, the method explained here will permit us download the videos in their highest quality, or at least one superior to the one that offers services like the one mentioned higher up. Here are the steps to follow if you want to download whatever YouTube video.

  1. We open any web browser that has inspection tools or an inspector.
  2. We open up the YouTube video.
  3. We correct click and open the inspector. In Firefox it is "Audit Element". In Chrome information technology is "Audit".
  4. Among the tabs, we cull "Network" or "Network".
  5. In Firefox, nosotros click on "Media" to filter the video and audio. If we use Chrome, nosotros can cull the XHR tab.
  6. In both cases, we are interested in what "videoplayback" says. We have to download the video and audio separately. To do this, we select one of the options and, on the right, we cull "Headers" or "Headers", where all the information will appear, including whether it is video or audio.

Descargar cualquier vídeo con Firefox

  1. With the right click on what is marked in bluish in the capture, nosotros copy the URL.
  2. We paste the URL in a new browser window and delete the end, from where it says "& range = xxxxxxxxx" (the quotes are not there).
  3. We printing Enter, which volition open the video or audio in a format that tin exist downloaded.
  4. We right click on the playback window and save the video or audio, depending on what it is showing. It is worth it that in both cases we put the extension .mp4, although in the sound we can put .mp3 and the editors should recognize information technology. If information technology fails, we can download them directly as .webm.

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How to download YouTube video and audio on Linux

Merging video and audio

  1. Now that we have the video and audio on our PC, we have to join them. There are many ways to do it, but since we take promised for this article that we volition not need extra software, we are going to link it with the browser. To do this, we go to the folio kapwing.com.
  2. We click on «Starting time editing».

Unir audio y vídeo 1

  1. We click on "Click to upload" and choose the video.

Unir audio y vídeo 2

  1. Next, we click on Audio. A new editor volition open for u.s..

Unir audio y vídeo 3

  1. We click on «Click to upload audio» and choose the sound. Video and audio are supposed to be perfectly in sync, so we could move on to the next step.

Unir audio y vídeo 4

  1. We click on «Done». Returns the states to the original editor.

Unir audio y vídeo 5

  1. We click on "Publish" and await for the process to terminate. It takes a while.

Unir audio y vídeo 6

  1. In one case it finishes working, nosotros correct click on the video and cull "Relieve video as", we give information technology a name, we choose the path and we download it. We can also click on «Download», but it is supposed to put a watermark that tin can be removed if nosotros log into the service, for which we would beginning have to annals. I take tried several times and this watermark has not appeared.

Descargar vídeo con audio

Join video and audio with VLC

If we do not desire to join the video and audio with the browser, since the previous website may cease working at any time, nosotros can also bring together them with VLC. Taking into account that it is installed by default in many Linux distributions or that we install it on our own, that of "without installing extra software" would continue to exist fulfilled. To do then, we will exercise the post-obit:

  1. We open up VLC.
  2. Permit's go to Medium / Convert.
  3. We click on «Add» or «Add together».
  4. We choose the video.
  5. We click on "Prove more options", or "show more options" if it appears in our language.
  6. We mark the box «Play another media synchronously».

Unir vídeo y Audio con VLC

  1. When you check the box, the "Explore" option appears. We click on it.
  2. We go back to «Add» or «Add, we choose the audio file and confirm past clicking on« Select ».
  3. We click on «Convert / Relieve».
  4. We choose a contour.
  5. Nosotros signal a name and road.
  6. Finally, we click on "Kickoff" and wait for the procedure to finish.

With everything explained in this article, surely in that location is no YouTube video that can resist yous, and this also includes the best quality.