Download YouTube Videos in Linux Command Line

Tech World 2016-01-19 Channel: Linux

Abstract: //youtu.be/McuF7g14hYw -o audio.mp3sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

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Generally, we download videos from YouTube using the web browser. But now you can also download videos from YouTube using the command line.

The youtube-dl is an command line utility is developed by the the youtube-dl.org team. It is build on Python programming language, which is also required this script.

This tutorial will help you to install youtube-dl on your Linux system. Also provides you multiple useful examples for downloading audio and videos directly from Youtube.

Installing Youtube-DL

Use the following command to install a YouTube command-line downloader as per your Linux operating system.

The Recommended Way

To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, macOS, etc.), type:

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:

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

From Repositories

Installing on Ubuntu, Debian and LinuxMint
```
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
```
CentOS/RHEL 7/6 and SL
```
sudo yum install youtube-dl
```
CentOS/RHEL 8 and Fedora
```
sudo dnf install youtube-dl
```

Download Audio & Videos with Youtube-dl

Now use the followings set of example commands to download Youtube videos with different-2 options and formats as per your requirements.

1. Download Video – Use this command to download videos directly on your system.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McuF7g14hYw


[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Extracting video information
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: How to Download Java Archive using Command Line -McuF7g14hYw.mp4
[download] 100% of 3.79MiB in 00:09

2. Save Videos with Different Name – Use option -o followed by new video file name to save on your system disk.

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McuF7g14hYw -o Video.mp4 


[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Extracting video information
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: Video.mp4
[download] 100% of 3.79MiB in 00:07

3. Download Audio in MP3 Only – You can simply download audio of any video on your system in mp3 formats, like following commands.

youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://youtu.be/McuF7g14hYw -o audio.mp3

[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading webpage
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Extracting video information
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading DASH manifest
[youtube] McuF7g14hYw: Downloading DASH manifest
[download] Destination: /home/sysadmin/Desktop/audio.mp3
[download] 100% of 4.16MiB in 00:11
[ffmpeg] Correcting container in "audio.mp3"
[ffmpeg] Post-process file audio.mp3 exists, skipping