As simple as it may sound to some, many may be curious as other people do to send them YouTube videos and other streaming platforms by WhatsApp and other messaging applications, or as some do to put their favorite videos as statuses on WhatsApp or Instagram.
Well, in this short and simple guide, we are going to explore a very simple method to achieve this task, without having to download any additional application on our cell phone, because as you may have already investigated, in the Google Play Store there are no apps available to download YouTube videos, and those that exist must be installed outside the store; something that is normally very dangerous, because in many cases it carries malware.
Instead of installing apps on our cell phone to download YouTube videos, we are going to use a simple page that does all the work for us.
So our simple method will consist of download YouTube videos using a third party page let it do the work of converting them to a compatible format like MP4 for video or MP3 if we are only interested in the audio track.
Download YouTube Videos
To begin, we are going to access from our browser, either on Android or from our PC, the onlinevideoconverter page, which is one of the most popular online video download services. However, if this site doesn’t ring a bell, you can search many other similar like qdownloader or savethevideo. Unfortunately due to the nature of unauthorized video downloading, these sites come and go, and many of them are not to be trusted, trying to fill you with publicity or inciting additional downloads, so it is best to be very cautious of the site you choose. .
Continuing with our example onlinevideoconverter portal, we can open YouTube in another tab, and look for the video we want to download, then we copy the link from the share button and copy link to clipboard (if we are on the cell phone) or simply by right clicking on the video to copy its URL in Windows.
Then we go to onlinevideoconverter, paste the video address, and select the audio or video format that we want to download. Additionally we have the possibility to configure more settings such as setting the quality of the video to download, or if we want to download only a fragment of the video instead of downloading it completely. I do this, we click the start button for the portal to prepare our download.
Once the process ends, we can download the file to our phone or PC, and if we are from the PC we can read a QR code to obtain the download link on our phone.
You can carry out the process directly from your phone
Post on your social networks
Now that we have what we need to publish your favorite YouTube videos on WhatsApp and other social networks, we only have to open the app and share our video file as a story or send it directly to a contact or group. The process is the same as that followed to publish a photo, so you just have to find the folder where you have saved the video and that’s it.
You can now publish the video in WhatsApp stories or send it to a contact or group
I hope this simple guide is useful for all those who were looking for a way to be able to publish their favorite YouTube videos on WhatsApp without taking many risks of contaminating their cell phone with malware in the process.
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