Download YouTube Videos From Command Line In Ubuntu Linux

By Aun on Oct 23 2009 32 Comments

UTube Ripper offers a graphical interface for downloading and converting the YouTube videos in Linux. But in many scenarios you also need to download some YouTube videos from command line. Just like if you are working on a remote sever and you need to download some video there, and you don’t have a graphical end available on the remote server, then what will you do? Try YouTube-Dl. It downloads YouTube videos from the command line and works on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS.

Lets see how we can install and use it in Ubuntu, first of all open the terminal and run the following command to install it.

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Once the installation is completed, you are ready to download YouTube videos. Now use the following general syntax of the command to download YouTube vide.

youtube-dl –o filename.flv URL

where filename.flv should be the name with which you wish to save the downloaded  video and URL is the address of the YouTube video. For e.g, see code below,

youtube-dl –o filename.flv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut3HAdCGHxs

The following screenshot illustrates the download process of the video in Ubuntu terminal:

youtube-dl

Enjoy!

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  • ebubru

    thnx it works keep helping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • sendagire

    hi,i hav tried youtube-dl but it tels mi dat format not available for video, wat shud i do?

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