How to download youtube videos on ubuntu / linux
****** Before running the command, just cd to required directory and then your file will be downloaded in the folder of your choice.******
The best way to download youtube or facebook or videos from other sites on linux.
youtube-dl is a command line tool for downloading videos and playlists.
It’s quite simple and really effective.
manual : https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#faq
download command :
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
Or
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
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