Paste a YouTube link. Pick any resolution, or take just the audio.
Press Ctrl V to paste, or drag a link in. Enter starts it.
MediaDocks reads the formats YouTube publishes for a public video and offers each one as a download: the full resolution ladder as MP4, the original audio track as M4A, and MP3 at your choice of bitrate. Video and audio streams are combined server-side, so what you save is a single ready-to-play file.
Every resolution the video has, plus audio-only. YouTube serves high resolutions as separate video and audio streams. MediaDocks fetches both and combines them with FFmpeg into one MP4, which is why 1080p and 4K are available rather than just the low progressive format. Audio-only downloads skip the video entirely. Nothing here bypasses a login, an age gate or DRM — only what a signed-out visitor can already play.
Public posts only. MediaDocks does not sign in or bypass private accounts, age gates, paywalls or DRM, and bulk channel extraction is not supported. Saving a file grants you no rights you did not already hold — make sure you own the content, hold a licence, or have permission. See our copyright policy for what is and is not permitted.
Scope
Checked against live public links, not guessed.
Step by step
Any watch, Shorts, embed or youtu.be link works, with or without a timestamp.
Tracking parameters are removed while the video id is preserved.
Choose a rung from the video list, or switch to audio for M4A or MP3, then press Download.
In detail
The same field handles every kind of YouTube link. Here is what each one returns.
Paste any watch link and every resolution the upload actually contains is listed — 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p and 144p on a 4K source. Whatever you pick arrives as one finished MP4 with audio, not as separate files to join yourself.
Skip the video entirely and take the soundtrack: the original AAC track as M4A with no re-encoding, or MP3 at 128, 192 or 320 kbps. Audio-only downloads are far quicker because no video stream is fetched at all. There is a dedicated walkthrough on the YouTube to MP3 page.
Shorts links (/shorts/) resolve to the same video id as a watch link and behave identically, returning the vertical MP4 at the resolutions published for it. youtu.be and /embed/ forms work too.
YouTube serves anything above 360p as separate video and audio streams, which is why many tools quietly cap out at 360p. MediaDocks fetches both and combines them with FFmpeg before sending the file, so 1080p and 4K are genuinely available when the upload has them.
Link formats
Any of these shapes works, with or without tracking parameters.
FAQ
Straight answers, including where the limits are.
The diagnostic lookup covers every error message — expired links, missing resolutions, login walls, size caps and slow muxing — with the cause and the fix for each.
Knowledge Base
A complete guide to video resolutions: understanding pixel dimensions, aspect ratios, bitrate requirements, and how to choose the right download rung for your device and bandwidth.
7 min readVideo FormatsExplore the technology behind digital video compression: why H.264 remains universal, how VP9 powers YouTube, why HEVC faced licensing hurdles, and how AV1 shapes the future of streaming.
7 min readAudio ProcessingA pragmatic look at digital audio quality: how lossy encoding works, what bitrate you actually need for podcasts versus music, and why 320 kbps is often redundant.
6 min readNo account required, no software installation, no hidden limits. Paste a public media link and pick the resolution you want.
