Download Youtube Video From Command Line
Youtube-dl is a python based platform independent command line tool to download any videos from youtube. In ubuntu, it’s already in the repo just download it using apt-get; others can download it from the authors website http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/.
The instructions is pretty straight forward. In the terminal type, youtube-dl “youtube_video_address” this will save the video in flv format with can be viewed with most popular video player like VLC or Mplayer for linux. If you want to save video file to something else you could use the -o option like this: youtube-dl -o video.flv “youtube_video_address”.
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