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The honest flow
What this YouTube playlist downloader does, and what it doesn’t
No queue, no batch settings, no pretending otherwise. Each paste gets one video with every real option on the table.
Start with the limit, because it decides whether this page is any use to you. NoTube resolves one video per paste. Give it a bare playlist URL — the kind starting youtube.com/playlist?list= — and it answers with a plain message saying playlists aren’t supported yet. Not a glitch. No setting anywhere turns batch mode on.
Paste a watch link from the playlist instead and that video resolves completely: every MP4 quality the uploader published, each with its true file size, all in one list. You pick the row per video, so the keynote and the five-minute recap don’t have to share a setting.
Press Convert and the progress bar tracks the real fetch; a Save file button then hands the file to your browser. One download runs at a time, so the rhythm is simple: save, back to the playlist, copy the next link. Same engine as every NoTube tool — see how it works under the hood.
- Every quality listed per video — 1080p Full HD down to 360p
- Real per-download progress, then a Save file button
- Files over 1 GB are flagged up front — pick a smaller rung
Camera movement
8:03 · video 3 of 5 in Cinematography basics
1080p
403 MB
720p
201 MB
MP4 · 480p
112 MB
One download at a time · Save file appears when it finishes
≈ 40s left
Know your link
Anatomy of a playlist link
Two YouTube URLs can mention the same playlist and behave completely differently here. Thirty seconds on the difference saves a confusing error.
The watch link — paste this one
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&list=PLh6xUyRTj4kD1Sq…&index=4
- v=…
- One specific video — the only part the downloader needs. This is what resolves into the list of qualities, so a link copied while any episode plays works perfectly.
- &list=PL…
- The playlist ID, riding along as context. It tells YouTube’s player what to autoplay next and tells you which set this video belongs to — it doesn’t change what
v=downloads. The letters it starts with are decoded below. - &index=4
- Your position in the playlist — handy for keeping your place as you work through the set, ignored by the download itself.
The playlist page link — not supported yet
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6xUyRTj4kD1Sq…
- /playlist
- The playlist’s own page. When the address bar shows this path, no single video is selected — and with no
v=to read, there is nothing here to resolve. - list=PL…
- On its own, the ID identifies the set, not a file. Paste this link and NoTube says so plainly: playlists aren’t supported yet — paste a link to a single video instead.
Copied the link from the playlist page? Open a video first.
Click any entry in the playlist so the address switches to watch?v=, then copy that. Every video in the set has its own watch link, and each one resolves here with every quality listed — the same behaviour as the standard YouTube downloader. Work down the playlist link by link and use &index= to keep your place.
Read the ID prefix before you start
The first letters of the list= value tell you what kind of set you are about to work through.
PLA hand-curated playlist — the normal case. Its page on YouTube is your worklist of videos to save.
UUA channel’s complete uploads feed, newest first. Open your own to see exactly what a channel backup involves.
OLAK5uyAn auto-generated album. Check the rights before saving music you didn’t release.
RDA Mix — generated per viewer and effectively endless, so there is no fixed set of videos behind it at all.
Playlist habits
Get the whole series right the first time
Four habits that separate a clean, ordered 40-file folder from a loose pile you end up re-downloading.
Number the files as you go
Files are named after their video titles, so add a zero-padded prefix — 01, 02, 03 — as each one lands, not in one pass at the end. The playlist’s index= value gives you the position, and alphabetical order becomes playlist order.
Pick one quality and stick to it
Each video shows its own list, but a series is easiest to watch and budget at one rung. 1080p is the safe default; when an older lesson tops out at 720p, its list simply ends there. Take the best it has and move on.
For lecture series, grab audio instead
If a series is someone talking over slides, the pixels are dead weight. Paste the same links into our YouTube to MP3 converter to pull audio-only files — a term’s worth of lectures then fits on a phone.
Do the storage math first
A 20-lecture course at 15 minutes each is roughly 15 GB in 1080p, 7.5 GB in 720p. Check your free space before you start. At these rates the 1 GB per-file cap lands around the 20-minute mark in 1080p, so anything longer than that wants the 720p rung — the row tells you before you click.
1080p
≈50 MB/min
720p
≈25 MB/min
Use cases
Built for sets, not singles
When the unit you care about is a series rather than a video, a deliberate video-by-video pass earns its keep.
Course series
A 40-part bootcamp is useless on a flight without Wi-Fi. Work through it the night before — copy each lesson’s link, pick 720p to keep it light — and prefix the filenames 01, 02, 03 so lesson 12 sits after lesson 11.
Conference talks
Events publish each year’s sessions as one playlist. Save just the talks you care about — each is a single paste — and watch in your own player, with no autoplay dragging you off to unrelated videos between sessions.
Your channel backup
Every channel has an auto-generated uploads playlist — that’s the UU prefix from earlier. Open yours as the checklist and pull fresh copies of your own uploads, one video at a time, for the day a drive dies and your local masters go with it.
Licensed album playlists
Creative Commons releases and albums you hold the rights to usually exist as auto-generated album playlists. Save each track’s video here in 1080p; for clean audio files to tag and order, run the same links through the YouTube to MP3 tool instead.
A note on rights: a playlist makes it easy to save a lot in one sitting, so the same rule applies forty times over: your own uploads, licensed material, Creative Commons work. Covered in our terms of service.
How it works
How to download a YouTube playlist, video by video
Three steps, repeated. On a 20-part series that is about four minutes of clicking in total — most of it spent switching tabs.
Step 1: Open the playlist on YouTube
The playlist page is your worklist. Click a video and copy the URL from the address bar — it starts with watch?v= and usually carries list= too. Both are fine.
Step 2: Paste and pick a quality
The video resolves with everything at once — each MP4 quality with its file size. Press Convert on the row you want; rows over 1 GB are flagged instead.
Step 3: Save, then repeat
The progress bar tracks the real fetch; when it finishes, click Save file and the video lands in your downloads folder. Then copy the next link.
Audio
YouTube playlist to MP3
A lecture series, a DJ set archive, a podcast someone mirrored to YouTube — sometimes the video is a still image and a waveform. Skip the pixels.
No detour needed: the audio row sits at the top of the list this page already gives you, above the video ladder. Paste a video’s watch link, press Convert on the MP3 row, save it, then come back for the next video. If the whole series is audio and you would rather not look at video rows at all, the YouTube to MP3 converter is the same engine with the bitrate question up front.
Budget from running time, not video size. Speech lands near 1 MB per minute, so a 14-hour lecture series is under a gigabyte of MP3 against roughly 40 GB of the same thing in 1080p. Music is heavier — call it 2.5 MB per minute at 320 kbps. One caveat: NoTube writes no ID3 tags yet, so files arrive named after the video title with empty artist and album fields. For formats beyond MP3, the YouTube audio converter covers the rest.
Devices
Download videos from a playlist on any device
Nothing to install, nothing to sign into. The browser you already have is the only requirement.
On a laptop the two-tab rhythm is the whole trick. Playlist in one tab, NoTube in the other: copy, switch, paste, save, switch back. Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari behave identically.
On a phone it is slower but workable. In the YouTube app, tap Share then Copy link — that youtu.be address resolves here exactly like a full watch URL. Files land in Downloads on Android, Files on iPhone. One warning for long sessions: if the screen locks mid-fetch, some mobile browsers suspend the transfer, so keep the tab in front until the Save file button appears.
FAQ
Playlist questions, answered
The details people check before working through their first series.
Related tools
More ways to save
Every NoTube tool shares the same engine — paste a link, pick a format, done.
So: a YouTube playlist downloader that downloads one video per paste. Plenty of sites promise the whole list in a click, then hand you a zip that fails halfway or ask for an install first. Batch support is not built here yet, and when it is, this page will say so. Until then the manual pass costs about ten seconds a video and gives you what batch tools rarely do: a real quality choice on every file. Save what you have the right to save, and check whether a YouTube downloader is safe if you want the full answer on how the fetch actually works.
The next video is one paste away
Open the playlist, copy a video’s link, and the file is yours in about ten seconds. Free, no account, every quality on the table.