Sometimes these need more careful study than you can give them with a single pass through a browser.
And I've run across several that really need even closer study. For example, there's an interview with Sarah Paine....
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVSgYz5SJ8
She's a military historian with a decades-long bibliography who teaches at the Army War College. I've read some of her work, and she's lightyears from being the sort of BS artist you've probably seen on Youtube. She knows what she's talking about and has the track record to prove it.
She's addressed some serious conundrums, such as
WTF happened to Imperial Japan between 1905 and 1940. In 1905, they could hardly do anything wrong. Just 35 years later, they could hardly do anything
right. OMFG, really. They made more mistakes than the
Nazis, which is really saying something. And they capped their run of master-class idiocy by starting an obviously hopeless existential war, without any possible exit strategy, with the absolute worst possible opponent on the entire planet.
But the running time of this monster is almost 2.5 hours. Yeah, it needs D/L and careful study.
But as you probably know, Youtube dropped the hammer on all of us back around the first of April. Up until then, the "Video Download Pro" Firefox extension worked fine. After April 1, it didn't work at all. I couldn't get yt-dlp to work either.
I now have found a couple of methods that test out.
First method: Use an external web site,
ssyoutube.com.
In order to get this to work, you actually need to paste the Youtube URL into the field on their web page.
Older guidance, that you replace "youtube" by "ssyoutube" in the Youtube URL and simply play it,
hasn't worked, at least in the US, since 2020.
But copy-and-paste, per the instructions, gets the job done, as I verified earlier.
Second method: Use VLC on your client system.
I've also tested this, very recently. It works, albeit slowly. It doesn't complete until the video you pasted into your browser address bar in the final step completes.
Source:
How to Download Video from YouTube? Try these 6 Methods!
Quote:- Download and install VLC Media Player on your Windows computer.
Go to the YouTube video you want to download and copy the URL from the address bar.
- Open VLC Media Player and go to "Media" > "Open Network Stream".
- Paste the copied YouTube video URL into the "Network Protocol" field and click "Play".
- Once the video starts playing, go to "Tools" > "Codec Information" and copy the URL from the "Location" field.
- Paste the copied URL into your web browser and press Enter. Right-click on the video and select "Save Video As" to download the YouTube video to your Windows computer.