Source quality
Every resolution the post carries
YouTube stores several encodes of the same video. The list shows each one with its resolution so you can take the full-size file when you need it and a smaller one when you do not.
Paste a link to a public post and pick the quality you need. The file lands in your downloads folder, ready to edit, caption, or archive.
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There is no save button on YouTube. The usual workaround is to screen-record the post, which caps you at whatever your display can show, bakes the interface into the frame, and re-encodes everything a second time. What you end up with is a copy of a copy.
This tool reads the post the way the player does and hands you the source file the platform is already serving — same encode, same resolution, no interface, no second pass through a codec.
Source quality
YouTube stores several encodes of the same video. The list shows each one with its resolution so you can take the full-size file when you need it and a smaller one when you do not.
Clean frame
Nothing from the app ends up in the frame — no play button, no handle, no progress bar. The video fills the whole file, edge to edge, exactly as it was uploaded.
No re-encode
A screen recording compresses an already-compressed video. Every pass costs detail, and it shows first in motion and gradients. Here nothing is re-encoded.
Use the share menu on the post, or copy the address straight out of the address bar. Both forms work, and any tracking parameters on the end are ignored.
The post is read the moment you submit. You will see the thumbnail, the author, and the length, so you can confirm it found the right one before downloading anything.
Every available encode is listed with its resolution. Click one and the file saves through your browser, straight to your usual downloads folder.
Any editor needs a file on disk. A screen recording arrives at the wrong resolution with the interface burned in, and there is no way to remove either one later.
Posts get deleted and accounts go private without warning. If a clip matters to your work, a local copy is the only version you actually control.
Scrubbing in a player beats scrubbing in a timeline you cannot seek precisely. A local file opens in any tool that lets you step through frames.
Pulling ten clips into one folder makes them comparable. Ten browser tabs do not, and half of them will have moved by the time you come back.
Only public posts can be read. If the account is protected, the post has been deleted, or the video sits behind an age or region restriction, there is nothing to fetch — the tool will say it found nothing rather than return a broken file.
Downloading does not grant you any rights to the video. The clip still belongs to whoever posted it: fine for reference, editing drafts, and your own archive, but reposting it or using it commercially needs the creator's permission, same as anywhere else.
No. The tool reads what a public post already shows, so the link is all it needs. Nothing is posted or changed on your behalf.
Downloads are free and do not use credits. You do not need an account. Daily request limits and temporary service limits apply.
The post has no video in it, the account is protected, or the post has been removed. Open the link in a private window — if it does not load for you there, it cannot be read here either.
No. Only public posts can be read, and that limit is deliberate — a tool that reached protected posts would be a way around the privacy setting the account owner chose.
Yes. You get the file the platform itself is serving, byte for byte. Nothing is re-encoded, resized, or re-compressed along the way.