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Install youtube-dl in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install youtube-dl
This will complete the installation.
Using youtube-dl
Usage instructions are easy. Use youtube-dl followed by a video URL or identifier.
youtube-dl Example
youtube-dl “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar”
The video will be saved to the file foobar.flv in that example. As YouTube.com videos are in Flash Video format, their extension should be flv.Check this simple guide to convert .flv files to .mpg
More usage tips
You can change the file name of the video using the -o option, like in
youtube-dl -o vid.flv “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar”.
Some videos require an account to be downloaded, mostly because they’re flagged as mature content. You can pass the program a username and password for a YouTube.com account with the -u and -p options, like
youtube-dl -u myusername -p mypassword “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar”.
The account data can also be read from the user .netrc file by indicating the -n or --netrc option. The machine name is youtube in that case.
The simulate mode (activated with -s or --simulate) can be used to just get the real video URL and use it with a download manager if you prefer that option.
The quiet mode (activated with -q or --quiet) can be used to supress all output messages. This allows, in systems featuring /dev/stdout and other similar special files, outputting the video data to standard output in order to pipe it to another program without interferences.
The program can be told to simply print the final video URL to standard output using the -g or --get-url option.
ok that was a bit wrong
Its just as easy to keep an older versiion of opera on the PC and once the movie is finished caching just copy it out of your opera cache folder. Default: hidden in the home directory.
;o)
hm i forgot that wordpress likes to screw this things up:
hope it works this time ^^
An even more simpler way (just using the browser):
just type or copy in the brwoser location bar:
thanks but what about “pytube”?! it’s easier and GUI-based application, and no codes are needed to be used by the user
And then there is also this DownloadHelper extension for Firefox 3.0 users that can handle almost any kind of videos…
Keepvid is the best !
i have installed youtube-dl on my ubuntu,,,but the program can’t start,,by clicking /usr/bin/youtube-dl, ’cause no youtube-dl on the menu.
how can i resolve the problem?
thanks…
how to get and install Youtube-dl ?
@fazil
check the article and clearly says how to install from ubuntu repositories
hi … this code is not correct for downloading …
javascript:window.location.href = ‘http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=’ + swfArgs['video_id'] + ‘&t=’ + swfArgs['t'];
can u give me the right one …