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Download Youtube videos from command line

Written by pirat9 on November 12, 2009. Posted in Linux tutorials

Do you like to download youtube video easy way ? Now under debian and ubuntu using a magic command, you will be able to download the movies easy way from youtube website.

Follow the steps bellow to see how to do this .

first we have to isntall youtube tool downloader with

unixmen@unixmen-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get  install youtube-dl

now browse the website and download the link of your movie with , in my exampel i have downloded some videos of Call of Duty 5

to Download hight Quality Video add option -b like :

youtube-dl  -b  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ObtqZu8Nw&feature=popular

Output :

[1] 7271unixmen@unixmen-desktop:~/Download/amarok-webui$ Retrieving video webpage... done.Extracting URL "t" parameter... done.Requesting video file... done.Video data found at http://v17.lscache6.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cratebypass&fexp=901700&itag=5&ipbits=0&sver=3&ratebypass=yes&expire=1257984000&key=yt1&signature=C46617C680164BDD061C35F1334082A55CFEFB7B.D2D92D0DC654B3E1C101609CD55F7AD7947C23C4&id=77639bb6a66ef0dcRetrieving video data: 100.0% (   4.97M of 4.97M) at  283.02k/s ETA 00:00 done. Video data saved to d2ObtqZu8Nw.flv[1]+  Done                    youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ObtqZu8Nw

you can open the file with VLC of winFF

Trackback from your site.

http://twitter.com/nithinsr Nithin

To download the high definition video [code]youtube-dl -b [/code]
example: [code]youtube-dl -b http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ObtqZu8Nw&feature=popular/code
aperson

[code]video=$(ls /tmp | grep -e Flash\\w*)

cp /tmp/$video ~/video.flv[/code]

I don\’t see what\’s so hard about copying a file from your /tmp is. Granted, that just works for firefox.
pirat9

Thanks Nithin , i will add your remark
http://www.arasane.com youtube videos

copying a file from your /tmp is. Granted, that just works for firefox.

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Klaus Knegg

February 15, 2012 | #

Well – I have used Unity since 11.04, and I must admit that I was shocked in the beginning, having spent time on Linux menus since Linus dropped a pile of floppy-files on the Internet – was it 1991?

But as time has passed by and I have upgraded to 11.10, my feelings have changed – menus are not “natural things”. The never ending story “Is xxx a system tool, application, utility …” You can go on discussing this topic forever, the categories are blur.

Flat search engines seems natural – but they must smart and learn over time and hint you.

My conclusion is that Ubuntu / Unity is on the right track, but the “last mile” is still to go.

My son (Windows Guy until he started stying) came home one evening and said to me – “I installed Ubuntu [11.10] – I really liked the user interface – I found all I needed right out of the box, the search engine did the job”.

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February 15, 2012 | #

Just for the record, the Ubuntu community has never failed to be helpful, friendly, and interested. Same for the Fedora folks. I suspect it’s a common trait amongst Linux distros, but I have a few hundred more to check out before I’m certain…

Tuxeo

February 15, 2012 | #

Definitely 3.4.5. Thanks for wasting my time.

Julien Gobi [Tonton]

February 15, 2012 | #

Hi!
Thank you for your post, the setup phase was easy!After installing, how to configure your crashplan account in command line to link your different Sources/Destinations computers ?Thank you.J.

tracyanne

February 14, 2012 | #

As at 9:00Am February 15 2012 the ppa described above

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppainstall LO 3.4.5, not 3.5. The updates to 3.5 will probably be available in a day or 2.

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