Ripping a youtube video for audio cleanup in Izotope REX

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So long story short, I have a friend who had a video recorded of her speaking for a professional setting, and the people who recorded it have put it on youtube. The audio is pretty bad though--lots of echo in it. I think I could clean up the audio using Izotope, but I'd need to extract it first from youtube. (The people who recorded her are not easy to get ahold of apparently, and so she doesn't have access to the .mov file or whatever it is that they used.)

So two dumb questions. Short of just running a line out from one computer to another, is there an easy/safe way of getting the audio out of a youtube video? I see that there are a lot of dodgy online places that say they will do this for me, but they well, look dodgy, and I don't want a virus on my mostly isolated from the internet music computer.

Second, should I try to get a high quality .wav file or something similar, or given that it is already on youtube and so probably data compressed, would an mp3 be sufficient?

Thank you!
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I had decent results using the MediaHuman apps, not every video worked (I guess privacy settings or something) but most did, up to the best quality available (still 320kbps?) Ultimately it'll grab the audio at whatever quality it's up at for you to then process further.

https://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3/

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YouTube-dL from GitHub and Audacity. Both free. Remember that you can only have the maximum quality that YouTube allows.

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I would recommend https://freetubeapp.io/. It's a free youtube client for windows, mac and linux.
It allows for watching youtube without ads and you can make a backup copy of videos and sound files directly from the client.

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Thank you, everyone. The KVR community is awesome!
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Best quality wise is to grab the raw video (e.g. using VLC) and then use something that can extract ('demux') the audio stream, e.g. Pazera.
If you use something like an Youtube-to-mp3 online service you'll probably have re-encoding of the audio = quality loss.

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Alternate front ends for youtube with download button on a video's page, though it seems for high quality the audio and video are separate downloads: https://api.invidious.io/

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