Download Youtube Video From Command Line
Youtube-dl is a python based platform independent command line tool to download any videos from youtube. In ubuntu, it’s already in the repo just download it using apt-get; others can download it from the authors website http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/. The instructions is pretty straight forward. In the terminal type, youtube-dl “youtube_video_address” this will save the video in flv format with can be viewed with most popular video player like VLC or Mplayer for linux. If you want to save video file to something else you could use the -o option like this: youtube-dl -o video.flv “youtube_video_address”.
Here I am playing the video I just downloaded using youtube-dl with VLC.
If you are curious, the video I downloaded in this example, was Linkin Park - Bleed It Out which you can watch from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2MhH6mBg58 and download with youtube-dl if you want.
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I hacked it better:
http://softz.harvie.ath.cx/youtube.sh
Yust run it as root and open some video on youtube. It will be automatically downloaded. You can also set it to the promiscious mode…
Check this: http://softz.harvie.ath.cx/youtube.sh
Run it as su and open video in your favorite browser… you’ll see.
It also supprots “promiscious mode”.
The 2 pictures are very clear.
Here is a great site to download videos from youtube , simply search videos and click on download button to download (FLV link to download low quality videos and MP4 link to download High Quality Videos), no need to copy and paste video urls, a great, simple and easy tool for video down loaders.
http://www.vidmaza.com
its better way for linux users.Thanks for article and also everybody can use http://www.savevid.com for downloading youtube video.