You have been uploading videos to the YouTube website all this time but you are now looking to explore additional channels. Maybe you can put them on other video hosting websites like Vimeo or your Facebook page to reach an even wider audience. You can bundle the YouTube video files as an iTunes podcast that people can download and watch offline.
The important point is how do you get your original video files from YouTube for uploading to other websites? If you have been diligently storing a backup of every single video file that you have ever uploaded to YouTube, please skip reading this, else there are two “official” options.
Our online Google Drive downloader lets you download Google Drive videos and audio easily and quickly in MP4, 3GP, FLV, and other formats. Aug 12, 2018 Here are step-by-step instructions to download a file from Google Drive using the command line API if the file is shared privately and needs authentication. Get the file ID: Go to your Google Drive in your browser. Right-click (or control-click) the file you want to download.
If you head over to the creator dashboard on the YouTube website, you can download any of your website with a simple click (read how-to). The only downside with the option is that YouTube downsizes your HD videos to 480p.
Also see: Save Web Files to Google Drive
There’s another option available inside Google Takeout that will not only let you download your YouTube videos in their original high-resolution but also saves the files directly to your Google Drive. Thus, you can start the download process and it will save all your files, big and small, to Google Drive in the background. Once the files are in Drive, they’ll automatically sync to your desktop that you can later upload to other video websites.
To get started, go to this custom link, click the Next button and choose Add to Drive as your delivery method. That’s it. All you YouTube videos will be zipped and added to the Takeout folder in Drive in few hours. If the total size of your videos exceeds 2GB, it will create multiple files of 2 GB each.
![]()
An in addition to original videos, the zipped files from take will also include the video descriptions as well as all your playlists in JSON format.
1) Download the Google Drive app from your online store of choice. 2) Open the Google Drive apps. 3) At the bottom of the app, select the button with the plus sign in a blue circle.
You'll also like:
Short Bytes: You can download YouTube video or any image, audio, video, software directly to your Google Drive. To do this you’d require a Chrome extension called Save to Google Drive. This extension, developed by Google, allows users to save anything to their Google drive.
We are slowly moving towards less downloading and more streaming era. With products like Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, all of our data whether it’s images, music, videos, docs can live in the cloud.
It’s easy to upload data to your Google Drive from your computer or smartphone. But you can also download files to your Google Drive directly from the internet. This includes downloading YouTube videos to Google drive, saving web pages, and even download a software and other files to Google Drive.
How to download YouTube videos to Google Drive directly?
In the past, you might’ve read about YouTube video downloaders on Fossbytes. There are very handy when you want to save YouTube videos for viewing later. YouTube provides an option to make videos offline, but it’s only limited to YouTube app.
![]()
Save YouTube videos to Google drive:
Download Google Drive Video Link
That’s all. Now, go to the YouTube downloads folder on your Google drive where the video will waiting for you. You’d have to wait for some before you can watch the video Google because has to process the video. Once the processing gets finished, double-click the video to play it.
Now, you’d say this doesn’t make the video offline. The story doesn’t end here.
Save any file to Google Drive directly
Google Drive Download App
You can download any file from the internet to your Google drive provided you have the download link for the file. You can right-click any image, link, or HTML 5 audio/video and save, it to google drive. Google drive supports video formats including MP4, 3gpp, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MTS, WebM.
Keep in mind, all the content will go into the YouTube Downloads folder you set as default in the options. However, there is a limit on the download size of the file.
Download the Save to Google Drive extension on Google Chrome store.
Important: Not all content on Youtube is free of legal liabilities. So, downloading YouTube videos, other than the download button provided by YouTube, can be illegal or legal depending on the video. Many channels upload copyrighted content on YouTube that’s only for the purpose of streaming.
If you found this helpful don’t forget to drop your feedback.
Now Watch: Best YouTube Tips And Tricks
Comments are closed.
|
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |