Sometime around Thanksgiving, YouTube fans will be able to put aside download tools such as KeepVid and YouTube-dl if they want to watch videos away from the Internet. Late Tuesday, Google announced offline viewing is headed to the company's YouTube mobile apps in November.
The new feature will let YouTubers download "videos to their device to watch for a short period when an Internet connection is unavailable," the company said in a blog post.
[Related: How to download streaming media and watch it anywhere, anytime]
Google has flirted with video downloads for mobile apps before. In 2012, the company added a feature that let Android devices cache YouTube videos from their subscribed channels and watch it later lists.
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