There are billions of hours of video on YouTube, literally. And that's hardly the most astounding statistic about the site, which has been the go-to destination for uploading and watching videos ...

There are quite a few ways to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and other platforms so you can view them offline. Here are a few of the easiest and most effective methods.

By default it saves the downloaded videos to the same directory from which the program was called with the video id as the saved filename. You can change this behaviour by adding the -t option, which ...