Download YouTube Videos With youtube-dl

[joseph]

youtube-dl is available as an Ubuntu package, so we can open a terminal and install it as "sudo aptitude install youtube-dl"

To learn about youtube-dl's usage, take a look at its man page: "man youtube-dl", Basically it works as follows:

youtube-dl -o [name of output file] [YouTube URL]

Example:

youtube-dl -o test.flv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mIZvDD0RkQ

would save the video from YouTube - Franck Ribery Tricks and Goals as test.flv in the current directory.

To watch the downloaded video, browse to its location in the File Browser and double-click the file.

The script is available here.

[Sitemon]

Hi, Joe, thanks for this post, it works well at my side!