What Can You Do With This Plugin?
Bulletproof YouTube Videos is a breaking edge YouTube video backup plugin that is ideal for saving your (or other) YouTube videos to a cloud storage. It uses the YouTube native API to turn your website into a video backup machine!
The plugin can run on autopilot, and it will save videos to the following destinations (more will be added in future updates):
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- FTP
- v1.1.0 update: OneDrive
- v1.2.0 update: Amazon S3
New feature v1.2.5.update: save YouTube videos also in audio only format (.m4a)
3 reasons to create backups of your (or other) YouTube videos:
- If YouTube suspends your account, all your videos will be lost
- Download options for YouTube videos are limited
- Converted YouTube videos can lose their quality
Use cases for the plugin:
- Do you already make a backup copy for all your YouTube videos? Now you can automate this process!
- Prevent Your YouTube Videos from Getting Removed (DMCA, Content ID, YouTube ToS Removal)
- Backup Your Videos To a Cloud Storage
- Backup other YouTube Videos to Your Own Storage
- Make Recovering Deleted Videos Extremely Easy
- Replace the external hard drive where you are storing your videos, with an automated cloud storage
Cloud storage make backing up YouTube videos very simple, it also makes video management very simple, you will find all your videos in one place.
Also, using this plugin, you can backup your own YouTube videos, and also videos from other YouTube users.
You can search for videos to be backed up, based on a wide set of search parameters:
- Predefined set of keywords
- YouTube channels
- YouTube users
- YouTube playlists
- Advanced search queries like video publish date, geo location, video format, video definition and more
Testing this plugin
- You can test the plugin’s functionality using the ‘Test Site Generator’. Here you can try the plugin’s full functionality. Note that the generated testing blog will be deleted automatically after 24 hours.
Plugin Requirements
PHP 7.0 or higher
php CURL extension (install to Debian/Ubuntu etc with apt-get install php5-curl)
allow_url_fopen on
Changelog:
Version 1.0 Release Date 2020-04-08
First version released!
Version 1.1.0 Release Date 2020-04-11
Added support for Microsoft OneDrive
Version 1.2.0 Release Date 2020-04-13
Added support for Amazon S3
Version 1.2.1 Release Date 2020-05-11
Bugfix update
Version 1.2.2 Release Date 2020-10-28
Update to make the plugin compatible with latest YouTube changes
Version 1.2.3 Release Date 2021-01-16
PHP 8 compatibility update
Version 1.2.4 Release Date 2021-09-21
Plugin updated to match latest YouTube changes
Version 1.2.5 Release Date 2021-11-01
Added the ability to save only audio, video with no audio or regular video files Fixed audio/video quality settings
Version 1.2.5.1 Release Date 2023-10-18
Fixed PHP 8.2 related errors
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If you already bought this and you have tried it out, please contact me in the item’s comment section and give me feedback, so I can make it a better WordPress plugin!
WordPress 6.4 and PHP 8.2 Tested!
Disclaimer
Through this plugin you are able to grab videos from YouTube, that does not necessary belong to you or which is not under your control. If you grab copyrighted material without the author’s permission, the plugin’s developer does not assume any responsibility for your actions. Also, the plugin’s developer has no control over the nature, content and availability of grabbed material.