YouTube-DL - how to download videos from YouTube and dozens of other websites.

Hello and welcome to my second tutorial today here on Ti.

I was a bit surprised when a search turned up nothing for this on here, all the more reason for me to make a tutorial.

For this we are going to install YouTube-DL on Lubuntu 18.04.

Step #1: Open the terminal and type (or in this case, copy and paste)

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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

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the above command will download YouTube-DL, place it into the directory /usr/local/bin/ and give you permission to use the file.

Step #2: You're finished, yes it's as simple as that, to download something from YouTube, in the terminal simply type youtube-dl followed by the url of the video and it will download, for example:

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youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C2DHfIXKIo

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The readme file https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md gives a detailed insight into the many options available when downloading videos.

There isn't a comprehensive list available of supported sites, it's just the case of trying one you want, if it works it's a bonus, if it doesn't you are free to open a ticket on their github page and given time someone may add the support for it.

I hope this helps, thanks for looking at my second tutorial here on Ti, happy ripping! :).

Thanks @keeponsharing, very useful post.

For windows i use TVDownloader. It uses youtube-dl and a few other softwares to download videos from most streaming sites.

https://www.videohelp.com/software/Y...ideoDownloader

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Originally Posted by Ronin21

For windows i use TVDownloader.

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Excellent shout that Ronin21. It worked well. A neat solution for many streaming sites.

For MAC you can use app called Downie.
Using for about year without any problems. There are a lot of supported sites.