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Download Youtube videos from command line

Written by Mel Kham 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] 7271
unixmen@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=77639bb6a66ef0dc
Retrieving 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

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

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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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