Download YouTube Videos guide

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+---
+title: Download YouTube member videos
+date: 2025-03-31 22:25:00 +200
+categories: [Knowledge]
+tags: [download, youtube] # TAG names should always be lowercase
+---
+
+There's a lot of websites that allow you to download YouTube videos but they fail when it comes to member videos.
+Below guide will allow you to download Member videos that you have access to on your YouTube account.
+
+## Installation
+
+We'll need to download **[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation)** and preferably **[FFmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html)** so we have more options when it comes to conversion of downloaded videos to different formats and resolutions.
+
+---
+
+### yt-dlp
+
+**Install yt-dlp** <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation> in a empty folder
+
+### FFmpeg
+
+**Download FFmpeg** <https://ffmpeg.org/download.html> (for better format conversion)
+
+Extract the FFmpeg files and add ffmpeg.exe to your system PATH (or place it in the same folder as yt-dlp.exe).
+
+&nbsp;
+
+You're now able to download public non-member videos and don't need to do anything more if you're not interested in member content.
+Open a terminal in the same folder where you installed yt-dlp and try below command, remeber to replace "[URL]" with an actual Youtube link. It will save videos by default in the same folder as the yt-dlp.exe file are located.
+
+```bash
+yt-dlp [URL]
+```
+
+&nbsp;
+
+## Cookies
+
+For yt-dlp to be able to access member videos it needs access to your browser cookies.
+The easiest way is to use `--cookies-from-browser [Browser]`.
+
+This isn't working with Chrome and may be because of <https://security.googleblog.com/2024/07/improving-security-of-chrome-cookies-on.html> which once rolled out and will likely mean --cookies-from-browser chrome will be permanently broken on Windows. Read more about this issue here: <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10927>
+
+So we'll use [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/).
+Make sure you have it installed and have signed into your YouTube account.
+
+&nbsp;
+
+## Commands
+
+### Download all members from a channel (You must be a member of their chanel)
+
+Go to a YouTube chanel, click on the Videos tab and copy the URL. Replace [https://www.youtube.com/c/Chanelname/videos]
+
+```bash
+yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --match-filter "availability=members" -f bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mp4 [https://www.youtube.com/c/Chanelname/videos]
+```
+
+&nbsp;
+
+### Download all non-members from a channel
+
+To download all non-member videos change filter to `"availability=public”`
+
+```bash
+yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox --match-filter "availability=public" -f bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mp4 [https://www.youtube.com/c/Chanelname/videos] 
+```
+
+&nbsp;
+
+### Download a specific video
+
+```bash
+yt-dlp -f bestvideo+bestaudio --merge-output-format mp4 --cookies-from-browser firefox [VIDEO_URL]
+```
+
+More information about yt-dlp commands <https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#general-options>
+
+&nbsp;
+
+## Update yt-dlp
+
+If running into any issues, try updating **[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)**.
+
+You can use `yt-dlp -U` command to update if you are using the release binaries
+
+```bash
+yt-dlp -U
+```
+
+If you installed with pip, simply re-run the same command that was used to install the program
+
+<!--
+There's two alternatives, to save your cookies from the browser in a file or give it direct access from the browser itself.
+
+If they are manually saved to a file it will expire and needs to be updated after they expire.
+I recomend giving direct access which won't need to be updated at the moment dosen't work with chrome
+
+Exported chrome cookies with [**Get cookies.txt LOCALLY](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc)** and saved them in a ****`cookies.txt` file in the same folder (more info about [**cookies**](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/wiki/cookies/))
+
+~~or --cookies-from-browser chrome [Note! Chrome needs to be closed]~~
+
+So if using the browser instead of manually downloading a file with browser cookies that will expire after a short period of time, download Firefox and sign into your google account in YouTube
+
+Replace `--cookies cookies.txt` With `--cookies-from-browser firefox` in below commands
+-->