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How To Rip YouTube Videos Using VLC Player

If you want to copy YouTube videos to your computer, you have a variety of online options. There are actually too many to know which ones are better and more trustworthy than others.

We’ve previously shown you a few sites that help you download videos and playlists, but that includes using other people’s servers, checking the page source, finding obscure download links, and dealing with endless NSFW popups on other people’s domains.

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Why bother with all this when you can rip YouTube videos quickly and effortlessly using the software application that most people have already installed on their computers? I mean VLC Player of course.

This example was done on a macOS laptop, but the Windows method is very similar.

How to rip YouTube video using VLC player
  • Go to the YouTube page of the video you want to copy and copy the URL of the video.

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Given how easy it was to rip YouTube videos, who needs online converters and sourcing website pages? Of course not.

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