Super easy way to download Youtube Videos for CLI junkies [linux]

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This article deals with downloading youtube videos to your computer so you can watch it offline. There are several ways, e.g. browser extensions or several programs to download youtube vids to your computer. If you're a linux user, let's do it with the command line. There exists a super nice script provided by Ricardo Garcia Gonzalwhich does the job quite nicely :) You can download the Python Script from here. It's called youtube-dl.
All you have to do is:

  • first make that script executable using: chmod 755 youtube-dl
  • then copy the script into either ~/bin or /usr/bin
thats it.

From now on you can download your youtube videos using the command line with the following command:

triggetry@sym:~$ youtube-dl <path to the youtube video>

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