YouTube is the most popular site where you get most of the videos freely. Sore rear videos of musics, movies etc. are also available here. When you browse through YouTube, I am sure you must like some of the videos. You then desire to save them in your computer and wish to play later. But YouTube does not provide download facilities. Yet there are several software to download these videos which you must have to buy. But do you know that you can download YouTube videos without any downloading software. Yes! there are several ways to download YouTube videos without using any software. This page tells you the way to download YouTube videos without using any software. Throughout this page, you will know the following things:

• How to get YouTube video download link
• How to download YouTube video
• How to play YouTube downloaded video

You can download YouTube videos easily without using any software. There are several websites which offers you to download YouTube videos freely.

At first, I want to say you the name of those sites which offers you to download YouTube videos freely:

• http://keepvid.com/
• www.savevideodownload.com
• www.videodl.org
• www.youtubecatcher.com

In the following sections, I will tell you how to download YouTube videos from those sites.

To download any video from YouTube, you firstly have to find the video link and then have to download the video using any of the web site.

How to get YouTube video link of your desired video:

1. Click your favourite video clip, you can see the URL in your browser becomes something like the following figure.
2. Highlight the URL (like below) and right click the mouse and select "copy".

That's all, you have the link of your favourite video clip which you may download now by following any of the ways:

To download YouTube videos using keepvid, follow the following steps:

• At first go to http://keepvid.com
• Now, paste the YouTube video link in the URL text box and hit Download button.
• You will get the download link very soon.
  
• Right-click the download link and choose 'Save Link As...',
• Give the location where you want to save and give that a file name and save it as your desired file name with .flv extension. For example, a.flv
  

To download YouTube videos using savevideodownload, follow the following steps:

• At first go to http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php
• Now, paste the YouTube video link in the URL text box and hit Get Links button.
• You will get the download link very soon.
  
• Right-click the download link and choose 'Save Link As...',
• Give the location where you want to save and give that a file name and save it as your desired file name with .flv extension. For example, a.flv.

To download YouTube videos using videodl, follow the following steps:

• At first go to http://www.videodl.org/
• Now, paste the YouTube video link in the URL text box and hit Get It button.
• You will get the download link very soon.
  
• Right-click the download link and choose 'Save Link As...',
• Give the location where you want to save and give that a file name and save it as your desired file name with .flv extension. For example, a.flv.

To download YouTube videos using youtubecatcher, follow the following steps:

• At first go to http://www.youtubecatcher.com/
• Now, paste the YouTube video link in the URL text box and hit Download Video button.
• You will get the download link very soon.
  
• Right-click the download link and choose 'Save Link As...',
• Give the location where you want to save and give that a file name and save it as your desired file name with .flv extension. For example, a.flv.

After finished downloading your desired YouTube video, it's time to play those videos. All the files so far you have downloaded are .flv format and Windows media player is unable to play those files. So, you have to user other types of player which could run flv format file. To play those video files you can use FLV player or KMP player. All these players are free and you can download them freely.

Click here to download FLV player.

Click here to download VLC player.

Click here to download KMP player.

I think you are quite clear the following things from the above discussions:

• How to get YouTube video download link
• How to download YouTube video
• How to play YouTube downloaded video

If you face any difficulties or problems, please tell me in the comment section. I will try to answer your problems or queries.

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