Download Youtube videos with youtube-dl
youtube-dl is a command line utility to download videos from Youtube and in this tutorial you will learn how to use it.
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Install
There are several ways to install youtube-dl:
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube_dl
Use
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uu9VWBgcBU
Parameters
-o <filename>: set a name for the output file.-f FORMAT: specify a quality format. FORMAT is an expression that describes format or formats you would like to download:-f "bestvideo[height<=1080,ext=webm]+bestaudio[ext=webm]"best: Best quality format.worst: Worst quality format.bestvideo: Best quality video-only format (e.g. DASH video).worstvideo: Worst quality video-only format.bestaudio: Best quality audio only-format.worstaudio: Worst quality audio only-format.height: Height of the video, if known.ext: File extension.- More options.
youtube-dlG
A GUI frontend for youtube-dl.
Other programs
yt-dlp
yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork you can install in a similar way than youtube-dl (choose one of the methods):
sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo wget https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -O /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
sudo aria2c https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp --dir /usr/local/bin -o yt-dlp
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
python3 -m pip install -U yt-dlp
Usage is similar to youtube-dl (run yt-dlp -h for more info).
ytDownloader
A graphical video and audio downloader, compatible with several websites.
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