I am going to share two simple ways to download Youtube videos on Mac. It also applies to Windows PC. If you are a tech savvy, please try the first method yt-dlp, a command line for downloading YouTube videos with a couple of advanced parameter. The second method is using a dedicated YouTube Video Downloader app, which has a GUI and batch download mode.
yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for various of video sites. Below are a set of good examples for downloading videos.
- Download a video with the best video and best audio stream:
yt-dlp --format "bv*+ba/b" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eaGCk2Acs- Download a video with a defined format, in this case the best mp4 video available (default is "bv*+ba/b"):
yt-dlp --format "bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0"- Specify audio format and audio quality of extracted audio (between 0 (best) and 10 (worst), default = 5):
yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0"SysCute AllClipDownload is an all-in-one video downloader that support more than 100 websites, including YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch and many more. It works perfectly on any Windows and Mac computers and supports the latest Windows 11 and macOS 15 Sequoia.
You can download a single YouTube video, multiple YouTube videos or entire YouTube playlists from the app.
Here is the step-by-step guide for downloading YouTube videos: https://www.syscute.com/online-help/download-youtube-videos.html
And here is the screenshot:
