# How To Download Youtube Videos Without External Tools Or Extensions 💯

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/95605>\
**Category:** Tutorials & Methods\
**Tags:** tips-tricks, downloaders\
**Created:** [July 8, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/95605 "2020-07-08T14:24:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![BlueHacker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/bluehacker/32/174721_2.png) [@BlueHacker](https://onehack.st/u/BlueHacker)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/95605/1 "2020-07-08T14:24:06Z")

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1. Open **Developer Tools** in the browser and go to **Network** tool, or if you’re on Firefox press `Ctrl` + `Shift` + `Q` .

2. Click **Media** in the **Network** tool so that you’ll see only the HTTP requests made to media files, like audio and video files.

3. Browse to a YouTube video you want to download. You’ll start seeing the requests made by the YouTube page to the audio & video files in the **Network** tool.

4. Hover the cursor over the **Type** column of each request in the tool and look at the media type:

- If you want the audio, look for “audio/mp4”.
- If you want the video, then look for “video/mp4”.

**Note:** If you’re using a browser that doesn’t segeregate requests (like IE) or doesn’t list the requests made to the audio & video files in YouTube under “Media” (like Chrome), just search the term “audio” or “video” in the search bar in the **Network** tool.

1. Once you found a request with the wanted media type (it’ll be of the [googlevideo.com](http://googlevideo.com) domain), click on it, and copy the full URL from where it appears.

2. Paste the URL in the address bar, remove the `range` parameter in the query string and press `Enter` .

3. The video or audio will open, right-click on the page and select “Save As” to save the file.

4. If you want both the video and the audio, look for both with the steps above and **put them together** using any default media editor you have in your computer. It’s actually pretty easy and quick to do so (even with programs like the outmoded Windows Movie Maker).

[https://i.imgur.com/LR1pWYG.gif](https://i.imgur.com/LR1pWYG.gif)

**Enjoy!**

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**Author:** ![omkaragrawal](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/omkaragrawal/32/45485_2.png) [@omkaragrawal](https://onehack.st/u/omkaragrawal)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/95605/2 "2020-07-11T13:28:53Z")

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Holy, that works like charm😘

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**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/95605/5 "2021-11-03T08:25:39Z")

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#### Bonus: Tip for Firefox Users

If you’re getting [WEBM](https://www.webmproject.org/) audio files instead of MP4 from YouTube (webm can only be played in a browser) , disable your browser’s WEBM audio support, then YouTube will send the audio in MPEG4 format.

Type “about:config” in the address bar, press `Enter`, click through any warning message and search for “webm”.

Find and double-click `media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled`. Its value will change to `false` and you’re set.

![](https://i.ibb.co/synX1tX/webm-ff-change.jpg)

## Enjoy! ❤

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**Author:** ![leejiacheng1](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/leejiacheng1/32/94426_2.png) [@leejiacheng1](https://onehack.st/u/leejiacheng1)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 8:35am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-external-tools-or-extensions/95605/6 "2021-11-03T08:35:23Z")

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Thanks for sharing this method, appreciated 👍