youtube-dl is a small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like.
Using this command you can choose different video qualities or video formats or let the program itself automatically download higher quality video from the site. It also has supports for user specific playlist downloads, options to add custom or original title to the downloaded video file. proxy support and many more.
Installing YouTube-DL in Fedora or CentOS
yum install youtube-dl
Installing YouTube-DL in Ubuntu or Linux Mint
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
How to Download Videos using YouTube-DL
Go to your terminal and enter youtube-dl followed by the video URL
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
If you want to choose the video format, you can do it by entering
youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
Update YouTube-DL
You can update youtube-dl to the latest version using the below command
youtube-dl -U
Similarly if you enter youtube-dl --help in the terminal you will get many other options for downloading the videos
Using this command you can choose different video qualities or video formats or let the program itself automatically download higher quality video from the site. It also has supports for user specific playlist downloads, options to add custom or original title to the downloaded video file. proxy support and many more.
Installing YouTube-DL in Fedora or CentOS
yum install youtube-dl
Installing YouTube-DL in Ubuntu or Linux Mint
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
How to Download Videos using YouTube-DL
Go to your terminal and enter youtube-dl followed by the video URL
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
youtube-dl |
youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
Now you can select the format that you want to download by selecting the format code
youtube-dl -f 136 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
youtube-dl -f 17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
youtube-dl -f 17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbTqSKxH30
You can update youtube-dl to the latest version using the below command
youtube-dl -U
Similarly if you enter youtube-dl --help in the terminal you will get many other options for downloading the videos
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