Downloading YouTube videos is usually not an easy task. If you want to do this, you usually end up on dingy websites where every click can lead to spyware or other nastiness. KeepVid offers a safe download option and it works as follows.
Whether it’s a concert by your favorite band that is only on YouTube and that you want to listen to on your smartphone, or a handy fragment that fits perfectly into the presentation you are making. There are many reasons why you want to be able to watch a video that is online offline.
Unfortunately, the downloading of online video fragments with the major video platforms and social media is never actually possible and usually even explicitly prohibited. YouTube, Facebook and other providers explicitly exclude it in their terms of use.
The reason for this is the rights to those videos, but in practice it is mainly to protect one’s own advertising income.
The fact that it is nevertheless popular to download videos is evident from the huge range of sites that want to do it for you. The way the sites work hardly differs from each other. Copy the url of the video on YouTube or another platform, paste it in the search box and click on download.
The dangers
Sometimes there are additional options such as choosing a resolution or downloading only the audio or only the video signal. And that often on web pages that are cluttered with advertisements and download buttons that download completely different things than the intended video.
Since most users do not want to pay for the download, the creators of those websites look for alternative sources of income. And those are unfortunately not the most beautiful. So prepare for a deluge of commercials and much more for aggressive pop-ups and attempts to install unwanted software on your computer.
And so we end up with KeepVid. Follow the steps below to painlessly download videos, not only from YouTube but also from Facebook, for example. This site is also not entirely free of shady practices, so make sure you check antivirus software is up to date just in case you click wrong and follow the instructions carefully – and at your own risk.
Download videos with KeepVid
Keepvid has long been the favorite website to download videos from YouTube and other platforms, only this tool suddenly disappeared. If you now use the same Google to search for Keepvid or an alternative, you will encounter a lot of bad websites. So don’t.
Still, there is a real Keepvid restart site and that is Keepvid.pro. Click on that site YouTube Video Converter. Open a second browser window or tab and go to YouTube. Find the video you want to download and run it. Then copy the url of the video in the address bar and go back to the browser window or tab with Keepvid.
Click in the box IN FRONT OF Download Now and paste the url of the YouTube video. Click NOT on Download Now, but on Best Download underneath. An additional tab will open where the video will be played. Move the mouse over the video to activate the menu bar. Click on the three dots at the bottom right, choose To download and save the video to the PC.
Other formats and video sources
If KeepVid’s Best Download is not the desired download after all, you will find a number of alternatives under the download. Like with Video, there you have the choice to download the video in other resolutions. It seems tempting to download videos in the highest possible resolution, but it is often not.
Every video on the internet has its own resolution anyway and cannot be set in a higher resolution by any downloader. Moreover, a movie file in a higher resolution quickly becomes much larger and therefore more difficult to transport or convert.
If you do not want the sound with a video, choose one of the options below Video Without Sound. Do you especially want to listen to the video? Then is Audio Only the right choice.
Apart from YouTube, KeepVid also offers download options for videos from other popular services like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. These work roughly identically to the YouTube downloader, but give just a little more misleading download buttons. They do work.
To download a video from Facebook, first open the video on Facebook and click on the three dots at the top right of the video. Choose Copy link. Then go to KeepVid and click Facebook Video Downloader. Paste the url into the input window and a new tab will open right away with an adware download that stops the antivirus program.
Go back to the real KeepVid tab and wait for the option Best Download becomes active. Then click on it and save the video to the PC. Now you can watch the video wherever and whenever you want, even without an internet connection.
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