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The Youtube-dl is a simple command line tool to download YouTube videos directly on the Ubuntu or other Linux system using command terminal. The Youtube dl requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+), and it is not platforming specific which can be installed easily on any Linux distros. The best part is it also available in an executable form for Windows platform that includes Python plus Mac OS X is also supported. The YouTube dl is an opensource tool can be modified and distributed free of cost. In addition to Youtube, it also supports the downloading of videos from other websites too.
Here in this tutorial, we will see how to install Youtube-dl on Mac and Linux OS such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Centos…
Install YouTube-DL on Ubuntu 18.04 or Linux Mint
- Go to Ubuntu Linux
- Launch the Command terminal; the shortcut command for that CTRL+ALT+T.
- In the command terminal, type:
- sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
- It will ask for permission to install. Type ‘Y‘ and press the Enter button.
- The downloading and installation process will be started.
- In case the above command didn’t work for you then use this one:
- sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
- The above command directly downloads the YouTube-dl on your Linux. After the run the below command to change the permission.
- sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
Install YouTube DL on Redhat/CentOS or other Redhat based Linux distros…
- Again go to your Redhat/Centos/Fedora or other same based OS.
- Open the Command Terminal
- First, try the single command to install the YouTube dl
- If the above command didn’t work then use one of the below commands:
- After the above command execute this one to set the permissions.
To install the Youtube-dl on MAC OS just use the below command:
The command uses the curlbut you can use the wget as well; as shown above.
or if you have brew installed on your Mac OS the use this one
Or with MacPorts:
sudo port install youtube-dl
After installation in case the YouTube dl not working or giving some error in downloading the Youtube videos then execute commands given below:
If the last command didn’t work in the Ubuntu 18.04, don’t worry. Just run first tow commands and after you will able to download youtube videos using the command line tool Youtube dl.
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To use the Youtube dl
Type the youtube-dl followed by the yotubelink
Youtube DL Example:
Other Resources:
youtube-dl is an Open Source command line tool that lets you download video from YouTube (and many other videos sites). It’s often considered better than those paid video downloaders. In our previous article, we saw how to use youtube-dl to download videos on Android terminal. Even Windows has a YouTube GUI client, there are no such resources available for macOS. So, in this article, we’ll give you a walkthrough on how to install youtube dl on mac. Let’s begin.
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youtube-dl Installation
1. To install, youtube-dl, you need to install Wget first. And in order to install Wget, you need to install homebrew first. So, copy paste the following command on your Mac’s terminal (press cmd + space and type in terminal). Once you run the following command, you Mac will download Homebrew master file from Github. You may have to enter your Mac’s password several times. The whole process will take 10-15 minutes depending on your Internet speed.
2. Once you have downloaded Homebrew, you are ready to install Wget. Type in the following command and also enable OpenSSL for TLS support.
3. Now that we have Wget to download packages from the internet, we will use it to download and install Youtube-dl package. Type in the following command and press enter.
4. You have now successfully installed youtube-dl on your Mac, however, it won’t work yet. To check you can type youtube-dl on your terminal and it’ll throw a permission error. To fix this, you need to give the right permissions, type in the following command and press enter.
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5. And that’s it, now you should be able to download YouTube videos (or any videos from youtube-dl supported sites) by simply typing youtube-dl [video-link]. For example, to download one of my videos from YouTube, I’ll type in the following command.
youtube-dl https://youtu.be/LxTcvc4cgCY
6. You can find the downloaded video in your home folder on your mac. To bring up the home folder simply go to Finder > Go > Home or press the keyboard shortcut CMD + Shift + H.
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Download 1080p video using FFmpeg
By default, FFmpeg will download the second highest resolution. You may have to install FFmpeg to get the highest quality video. Without FFmpeg, you will likely get the second highest which in our case was 720p. To install FFmpeg, type in the following command.
brew install youtube-dl ffmpeg
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So, this is how you use youtube-dl to download videos using your terminal. The app works exactly as advertised, yet not many people know about it. Anyway, if you wish to change your download location or download different resolution of the video, you can check out youtube-dl command line parameters on Github.