Best Way to Download YouTube Content

This is something that Google is constantly trying to stop from working, so things I put here may stop working tomorrow or not. And you can't show this on Youtube of course, so it'll be here..

Easy way

cobalt - just paste the link, select auto for video or select audio, and press enter.

Android

NewPipe - install the app, select video, and hit download. Works well as youtube app alternative, but it could be unstable.

Command line (most reliable)

Harder way but efficient. A easy way to install on windows: open cmd/powershell without admin and execute below:

• Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
• Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression
• scoop install yt-dlp

This will install scoop and yt-dlp. After install, get content formats available for download:

• yt-dlp -F "[LINK]"

Usually the -f 18 is a video with audio in a regular quality and -f 140 for audio only. After picking the best download format, run the next command to download

• yt-dlp -f 18 "[LINK]"

That's it. Check it's documentation for more useful configuration.