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How can I download audio from Youtube? Any good youtube audio downloader for PC?
One time I really needed to download a audio/song from YouTube, but didn’t want to use those ad-filled online YouTube audio downloder tools, so I tried to extract audio from YouTube using the browser’s developer tools. This method is a little fiddly, but it’s fun.
First, I opened the YouTube video, then right-clicked the page and selected “Inspect” or pressed F12 to open the developer tools. In the “Network” tab, I refreshed the page to reload all the network requests. Then, I started playing the video and saw a bunch of requests scrolling in the developer tools. At this point, I filtered the request type to find those audio or video files.
Once I found the corresponding audio stream, I right-clicked the request and selected “Open in New Tab”. The new tab played the audio stream directly, and I just needed to right-click the page and select “Save As” to download the audio file locally.
However, this method has some minor flaws. First, sometimes it is troublesome to find the right audio stream and requires patience. Second, the downloaded file may be in .webm format and need to be converted to MP3.