Tuesday, February 18, 2014

How To Download Youtube Videos using Terminal Ubuntu 13.04

How To Download Youtube Videos using Terminal

First download youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Then go to Youtube and grab the address of the video that you want.
Once copied, type this in terminal to start downloading:
youtube-dl (paste the address here)

Example:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2y92H2kiIM

After it's finished downloading, check your Home folder, it should be there.
The file name is usually the same as the address i.e. V2y92H2kiIM.mp4 as shown in the following pictures.


























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