At any rate, it is still actively maintained. Last November, Github took down the youtube-dl repository (is repository the right word?) in response to an RIAA takedown notice, but there was a major outcry from prominent journalists, documentary film-makers, and political activists who had relied on it heavily for important fair-use purposes, and the repository was restored. The Windows and Linux frontends are pretty close to identical I’ve never used the Mac frontends. There are graphical frontends available for youtube-dl in Windows, Linux, and Mac: YouTube-DLG for Windows, youtube-dl-gui for Linux, and MacYTDL and Get-It for Mac. Now You: do you download videos? If so, which program do you use? If you prefer a GUI, try one its frontends such as this one. For those, youtube-dl may be an alternative, but it is a command line application. Not everyone wants to buy a download manager just to download videos from YouTube or other video sites. Naturally, there are other options when it comes to the downloading of YouTube videos. All that is left then is to pick the download directory, or configure IDM to download the files immediately under Settings > Downloads. On YouTube, IDM displays all available quality options and you may pick one that you favor. You should see the IDM button on the page once you do if the button is not displayed, try reloading the page.

Once done, visit YouTube and start playback of a video. Most Chromium-based browsers, Vivaldi or Brave for example, support installing Chrome extensions, and you may use the Google Chrome version of the Internet Download Manager Integration Module in those browsers as well. The official IDM download page is no help, as it does not list links to the extension. First, what you need is the link to the extension.

Video online download manager