We're in an age where important video and audio online may be deleted without warning and without any ability to find it elsewhere. There's a very useful tool which lets you store an offline copy of video and audio called YT-DLP:

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I don't normally like command line tools, but this is pretty easy to use. After you've installed it, you just type yt-dlp and then the URL of the video or audio, then it saves it as a DRM-free file on your computer.

It works with a variety of different video and audio platforms.

(This replaces an earlier tool called yt-dl which is no longer maintained.)

#YouTube

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This is something I recommend people do with my videos too, even if I do maintain them locally. Some creators don't want 'anyone to have *my* content, boooo!' I subscribe to a vastly different mindset. If I've put time and effort into making it, I want people to benefit from it if youtube dies, so I actively encourage people to download my stuff. Perhaps I'm just strange like that.