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: