How to download a Youtube video without any software or Java

Youtube is a rich source for all kinds of videos. It is said that every minute, 100 hours of video is uploaded by Youtube users. One billion visitors hit the site every month. According to the Youtube policy, it doesn’t allow its viewers to download the videos. I think Youtube protects the uploaders rights.

However there are several ways to download a Youtube video. Many free softwares such as VDownloader, Youtube Downloader, Orbit downloader etc available on the internet. If you use Mozilla Firefox, numerous add-ons like 1 click Youtube Video downloader and ByTubeD, may help you to download the videos. Google chrome doesn’t have any Youtube downloader extension as Youtube is one of Google’s products. Previously Chrome accepted other website extensions. Now it changed the way. You can only attach an extension in the Chrome Web Store.

Some websites savetube.com, savemedia.com and voobys.com easily allow the users to download the video by pasting the URL. But the problem is, all the time you need Java plugin to download it.
In this blog, I’ll give an easiest way to download youtube video without any software, extensions or Java.

Go to the browser’s address bar while playing a Youtube video and add ‘ss’ just before the ‘youtube’ and after ‘.’ followed by www.

URL before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9CWso66HCk
URL after:
https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=f9CWso66HCk

 

Find the download links for various sizes and various formats. Click a download link and enjoy!
Keep in mind that some music videos cannot be downloaded due to a recent change in Youtube policy.