# How May I Back Up All Video Content From My YouTube Channel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 13, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184 "2017-07-13T18:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/1 "2017-07-13T18:10:03Z")
I’ve got almost 100 hours worth of video on a YouTube channel associated with my business. How may I download that all to my computer? ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/2 "2017-07-13T18:22:39Z")
How did you upload those videos without keeping copies ? I’m sure someone knows how to bulk download from YouTube; but in the meantime: Install Firefox. ( an old one if the new doesn’t allow extensions ). I have 4 extensions for this: Flash Video Downloader ---- YouTube HD Download ClipConverter Ant Video Downloader NetVideoHunter If any don’t catch one of them does. The 1st offers the most sizes of a video. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/3 "2017-07-13T18:25:44Z")
Ah, ClipConverter appears on the video page. The others you put up on the top bar. Then when the video starts, you just click the icon there. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/4 "2017-07-13T18:44:11Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > How did you upload those videos without keeping copies ? Did them over the course of 4 years, 4 different computers, 3 different cameras… stuff gets lost. Now trying to be Mr. Adultman about things and back up to my office NAS, and maybe an offsite backup location too. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/5 "2017-07-13T18:44:41Z")
I use [this](http://download.cnet.com/Youtube-Video-and-Audio-Downloader/3000-11745_4-75957386.html) one. ---
**Author:** ![Blakeyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blakeyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blakeyrat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/6 "2017-07-13T19:31:51Z")
Since it’s _your_ YouTube channel, you don’t need or want any of these products, as they’ll only download the version YouTube’s re-encoded. (Meaning: you’ll lose quality. You get what YouTube _streams_, not what you originally uploaded.) If you log into your Video Manager page, and click the little menu under your video title, you should have the option to download the file you originally uploaded to YouTube. (It’ll be called “Download MP4” if that’s the format you used to upload, for example. If you uploaded a .AVI presumably it would read “Download AVI”, but my channel only has MP4s.) This image might help you locate it: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/RqYOwtm.png?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/Bz3A2) Now the problem is: I don’t know of any way to automate that and get all your videos at once. If you have hundreds, you’d have to download the file for each one manually and that’s a huge pain in the butt. In the future, you probably want to keep your own videos separate from YouTube, as God knows with Google. I trust them to keep my data safe about as far as I can throw them. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/7 "2017-07-13T19:54:39Z")
Oh boy! Following Blakeyrat’s directions: “You can only download 1 video at a time (5 videos in 24 hours).” Since I have 705 videos, that’s brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Blakeyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blakeyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blakeyrat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/8 "2017-07-13T19:57:56Z")
Ouch. Sorry I didn’t know about that limitation, I’ve only had to use that feature once in an emergency. (Backup drive crash, and only about 3 videos were lost.) Well, maybe another option would be better than. ---
**Author:** ![Ornery\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@Ornery\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ornery_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/9 "2017-07-13T23:09:11Z")
> [@Mr.Slant](#): > > Oh boy! > > Following Blakeyrat’s directions: > “You can only download 1 video at a time (5 videos in 24 hours).” > > Since I have 705 videos, that’s brutal. Outsource it. You can get someone on Fiverr to do it for less than you might expect. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/10 "2017-07-14T09:21:16Z")
Can you not raise a ticket with Youtube to get that restriction lifted? ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/11 "2017-07-14T09:31:08Z")
Doesn’t a YouTube Red allow you to one click download any video on their website? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/12 "2017-07-14T13:26:10Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Can you not raise a ticket with Youtube to get that restriction lifted? Do you have any guidance as to how to do that? I’m not seeing the appropriate option. On edit: Found it under help. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/14 "2018-02-21T12:18:57Z")
> [@Ornery\_Bob](#): > > Outsource it. You can get someone on Fiverr to do it for less than you might expect. Would you trust some random wage slave on Fiverr with your YouTube credentials? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/15 "2018-02-21T17:28:33Z")
> [@mark\_comarch](#): > > HI Guys, I’ve used YT RED as well but wondering it there are any other good converters which shows Youtube content. MOst of them works after paste url address. I waste my time jumping between converter and YT site. Can you recommend any other? I like KeepVid for that application, although it doesn’t completely solve the problem that I brought to the table in my OP. ---
**Author:** ![edwardcoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@edwardcoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwardcoast)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/16 "2018-02-22T07:48:18Z")
> [@Mr.Slant](#): > > Did them over the course of 4 years, 4 different computers, 3 different cameras… stuff gets lost. > > Now trying to be Mr. Adultman about things and back up to my office NAS, and maybe an offsite backup location too. Keep in mind, what gets uploaded, compressed and stored on YouTube isn’t as high quality as the original if you want to use it in other platforms or doing any sort of editing of them to create a new video. So if possible, I recommend you retrieve as much of the original video before it was uploaded to YouTube for archival purposes. It’s good you are keeping backups now. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-may-i-back-up-all-video-content-from-my-youtube-channel/791184/17 "2018-02-22T14:34:28Z")
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