David Gewirtz On How To Download YouTube Videos For Free

So, here’s a roundup of download options from video sites, from the
viewpoint of someone who’s scared of anything remotely technical
<https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-download-youtube-videos-for-free-2-ways-including-my-favorite/>.

Fun fact: ClipGrab is available as open-source for Linux-only, not for
Mac or Windows. (Wise developer, I think, who doesn’t want a flood of
bug reports from Mac/Windows noobs who can’t figure out the basics of
building something from source.)

But I check the site, and its YouTube support only seems to go up to
1080 HD. This in spite of the fact that many videos are available in
4K or even 8K resolution.

Also, ClipGrab doesn’t seem to support over 100 different sites, like
youtube-dl and its offspring do.

The author’s excuse for avoiding the command-line-based Linux tools:

    Both youtube-dl and yt-dlp offer a very, very wide range of
    features if you need them. Personally, I'm going to stick with
    ClipGrab, because I don't have time to turn YouTube downloading
    into a third full-time job.

Yes, they have a lot of options. But they default to downloading the
best quality available, without you having to specify any options at
all. The options are there just to fine-tune the details of what you
want.