How to download ALL videos of ANY YouTube Channel

howto-download-youtube-videos.md

Step 1: Download Google Chrome

https://www.google.com/chrome/

Step 2: Install Web Scraper extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-scraper/jnhgnonknehpejjnehehllkliplmbmhn

More tutorials: https://www.webscraper.io/

https://www.webscraper.io/tutorials

Step 3: Find the Channel you want to download

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go to channel

go to Videos tab

copy the URL

Step 4: Download the video list as CSV

Right click to Inspect

Navigate to Web Scraper tab

Create new sitemap ID: name of channel Start URL: the URL you copied above

Add new selector

Id: videos
Type: Element scroll down
Selector: .ytd-grid-renderer div#meta
Multiple: checked
Parent Selectors: _root

Click on videos selector

Add new selector

Id: link
Type: Link
Selector: a
Multiple: checked
Parent selectors: videos

Optional preview

Scrape

Export data

Step 5a: Download the dl-youtube-videos binary for each platform

Download the binary at

https://github.com/pnhoang/dl-youtube-videos/releases

Extract the binary

Open terminal window

Navigate to the downloaded folder:

$ cd ~/Downloads/dl-youtube-videos
$ bin/dl-youtube-videos {csv_file}

Voillaaa, all the videos will be downloaded into the current folder in mp4 format. Enjoy the videos and remember to subscribe to the channel you downloaded, also to my channel to receive more update.

Step 5b: Optional

Check if you have Node installed in your computer

➜ node -v
v10.16.3
➜ npx -v
6.9.0

Use the script with npx:

➜ npx dl-youtube-videos {csv_file}