Install YouTube-DL – A Command Line Video Download Tool for Linux
youtube-dl is a Python based small command-line tool that allows to download videos from YouTube.com, Dailymotion, Google Video, Photobucket, Facebook, Yahoo, Metacafe, Depositfiles and few more similar sites. It written in pygtk and requires Python interpreter to run this program, it’s not platform restricted. It should run on any Unix, Windows or in Mac OS X based systems.Recently, youtube-dl added video download support for 17 new websites: brightcove.com, auengine.com,
RingTV, instagram.com, Jukebox, 3sat, CSpan, Statigr.am, traileraddict.com, hotnewhiphop.com, wat.tv, tu.tv, gamespot.com, tudou.com, Wimp.com, archive.org and break.com youtube-dl also allows to choose specific avialable video quality format to download or let the program itself
automatically download higher quality video from the site. It also has supports for user specific playlist downloads, options to add custom or original title to the downloaded video file. proxy support and many more.
Install Youtube-dl in Linux
*Install YouTube-DL in RHEL/CentOS and Fedora
The youtube-dl program can be installed by enabling epel repository under your systems. Once enabled, you can install using ‘yum‘ package manager tool as shown.
OR we can down load the .rpm package from "www.pkgs.org" website. And then can be installed through rpm command.
for RHEL -6
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http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/youtube-dl-2015.06.04.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm [download through 'wget'command]
#rpm -ivh youtube-dl.rpm
#yum install youtube-dl
*Update YouTube-DL
Youtube-dl itself can be updated to the latest version using the following command.
# youtube-dl -U
* How to Use YouTube-DL to Download Videos.
1. To download a video file, simply run the following command. Where “VIDEO_URL” is the url of
the video that you want to download.
# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw [Press Enter to download the video]
2. To download a video in availabe file formats, use option “–all-formats” with the command.
# youtube-dl –all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw.
3. To download a preferred file format, use the option ‘-f’ (video format code). For example, I would like to download flv format, So I use format code as ‘34‘ as shown below.
# youtube-dl -f 34 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw
4. To download a list of video files, create a file and place all the YouTube links that you wish to download.
# youtube-dl -a youtube_links.txt
4. Type the following command in a terminal to list all the avialable options.
# man youtube-dl [for more information and option]
youtube-dl is a Python based small command-line tool that allows to download videos from YouTube.com, Dailymotion, Google Video, Photobucket, Facebook, Yahoo, Metacafe, Depositfiles and few more similar sites. It written in pygtk and requires Python interpreter to run this program, it’s not platform restricted. It should run on any Unix, Windows or in Mac OS X based systems.Recently, youtube-dl added video download support for 17 new websites: brightcove.com, auengine.com,
RingTV, instagram.com, Jukebox, 3sat, CSpan, Statigr.am, traileraddict.com, hotnewhiphop.com, wat.tv, tu.tv, gamespot.com, tudou.com, Wimp.com, archive.org and break.com youtube-dl also allows to choose specific avialable video quality format to download or let the program itself
automatically download higher quality video from the site. It also has supports for user specific playlist downloads, options to add custom or original title to the downloaded video file. proxy support and many more.
Install Youtube-dl in Linux
*Install YouTube-DL in RHEL/CentOS and Fedora
The youtube-dl program can be installed by enabling epel repository under your systems. Once enabled, you can install using ‘yum‘ package manager tool as shown.
OR we can down load the .rpm package from "www.pkgs.org" website. And then can be installed through rpm command.
for RHEL -6
--------------
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/youtube-dl-2015.06.04.1-2.el6.noarch.rpm [download through 'wget'command]
#rpm -ivh youtube-dl.rpm
#yum install youtube-dl
*Update YouTube-DL
Youtube-dl itself can be updated to the latest version using the following command.
# youtube-dl -U
* How to Use YouTube-DL to Download Videos.
1. To download a video file, simply run the following command. Where “VIDEO_URL” is the url of
the video that you want to download.
# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw [Press Enter to download the video]
2. To download a video in availabe file formats, use option “–all-formats” with the command.
# youtube-dl –all-formats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw.
3. To download a preferred file format, use the option ‘-f’ (video format code). For example, I would like to download flv format, So I use format code as ‘34‘ as shown below.
# youtube-dl -f 34 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw
4. To download a list of video files, create a file and place all the YouTube links that you wish to download.
# youtube-dl -a youtube_links.txt
4. Type the following command in a terminal to list all the avialable options.
# man youtube-dl [for more information and option]
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