It’s best to have a wide variety of available tools so that you can get the video you want when you want it. I’m going to show you how to download an embedded video using a browser extension, the VLC media player, web-based tools, developer tools within your browser, and (as a last resort) how to use screen-capture software to download a video.Īs mentioned above, there are a lot of different video websites, and the tools that work for one might not work for another.
Plus, while many sites allow you to directly download video content, others, like YouTube, intentionally make it difficult to do so unless you pay them for the premium service level. Sometimes we’d like to download videos to watch offline, either because we have no Internet access or because we don’t want to use up our data. How To Download an Embedded Video From Any Website