3 AfreecaTV Downloaders - How to Download Videos from AfreecaTV

Although AfreecaTV is a video streaming website mainly geared towards Korean, it also grabs the attentions from the globe who are addicted to Korean wave. You can even find more and more global streamers on AfreecaTV. If you already have your favorite streamers, in addition to the LIVE streaming, you may want to watch their VODs, including Highlights, Replays, Fan VODs, Uploaded VODs, Uploaded Clips, User Clips.

In case those VODs are expired or the streamers remove them, it's recommended to download AfreecaTV VODs for convenient archive and playback on different devices. To implement this job, I'll introduce three AfreecaTV downloaders below.

Disclaimer: The tutorials are demonstrated for instructional purpose and personal fair-use ONLY. DO NOT download copy-righted AfreecaTV videos for illegal sale, distribution and other commercial intentions. Do it at your own risk!

You may be familiar with Video DownloadHelper extension, but it only works with a companion APP installed on your computer, because AfreecaTV delivers HLS videos. Instead, I would recommend HLS Downloader for AfreecaTV VOD download.

Go to https://github.com/puemos/hls-downloader, scroll down the page, download and install the extension to your Chrome, Firefox or Edge.

After done, find and play your desired AfreecaTV VOD, then there would be a red dot appearing on the HLS Downloader icon, which means it has captured HTTP Live streams. Click the extension icon, choose a playlist and press the arrow icon to proceed.

It will show all available video resolutions, click on the download icon of your desired quality, and it will start to download AfreecaTV VODs. When the process is complete, you'll be prompted to give a name to video file and choose a directory to save it on the local hard drive.

However, the only drawback is that the downloaded AfreecaTV video will be saved in .ts format. If it's not your taste, try to change video format with HD Video Converter Factory Pro mentioned in Method 1.

I bet most people would prefer the online AfreecaTV downloader. Indeed, that's more convenient with the online solution. Many services claim that they can do this job, however, you have to admit a fact that only few websites are qualified for AfreecaTV VOD download or you'll be misled to an ad page.

Unfortunately, 9XBUDDY is the only website I found that worked till I published this post. Just visit https://9xbuddy.org/sites/afreecatv, paste the VOD link and press "DOWNLOAD" button. After a short while, scroll down the page and hit "DOWNLOAD NOW" button to save AfreecaTV VOD.

Sincerely hope this post is more helpful to you. In practice, after getting the hang of the three downloaders, you'll find they also work for downloading videos from other popular websites. And if you have a better and simpler solution, don't hesitate to share with me for update. Thanks for your reading.