Now most of the setup is done, now all you have to do to download a youtube video is to (you normally go to the official site here, and it sends you here to find the windows build you want, I just did that step for you) Edit: changed the link since shut down. Result (for me): C:\Users\Forcen\yt-dlp.exe You can get to it quickly by pasting %userprofile% into the address bar of explorer.
(this is based on the official instructions)ĮDIT : youtube-dl has gotten a bit stale so you might want to try this fork instead: (just download yt-dlp.exe from there instead and replace it in the instructions) This is how you set it up, it takes a few steps but it's real easy when you have done this once.
If this seems way too complicated then you can use a gui for it like this one: Here is a guide on how to use YouTube-dl, the best free way to do this, wrote this for a similar question years ago but It might have been removed or something.
