YouTube tends to lock apps who can download videos from their website. He wants you to go to the checkout and subscribe to his monthly fee to do so. The graphic material displayed on your website is yours and you have every right in the world to advertise and restrict free features and extend them with paid features.
But many times, and more on the internet, the ways of the Lord are inscrutable and there are usually solutions for everything. ViDL is a free tool for Mac which allows you to save any YouTube video to your hard drive. Let's use it while it lasts….
Download ViDL for Mac, Unzip the zip and move the application to the Applications folder. Open it and you will see that it is very easy to use. You can search for videos from the app, but let's just say it's not your best virtue.
The best practice is to paste the YouTube URL of the video you want to download and that's it. If you paste a URL of the playlist, it will download the videos that you have in it. That easy. It is advisable check the option to convert to mp4, so that the download file is smaller.
You also have the option of check «audio only», and it will record only the audio track for you. Quite a practical function. By default, it will save the files in the Downloads folder, but obviously you can change this to whatever you want.
The save quality is not that it is exceptional, but it works perfectly to download content from YouTube, and pass it to your mobile device and then view it offline. For this task goes the sea of well.
If what you want is to download videos in 4K for later editing, forget about this and subscribe to YouTube Premium. Let's say this is a home-based solution.