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There is any good program to download YouTube videos? I am using Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit.

Eliah Kagan
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To install youtube-dl:

  • Recommended way (latest version):

    1. Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T or searching Terminal in the dash.

    2. Install youtube-dl with this command (you'll be prompted for your password):

      sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl && sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

  • Not recommended way (older version):

    1. Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T or searching Terminal in the dash.

    2. Install youtube-dl with this command (you'll be prompted for your password):

      sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

To use youtube-dl:

  1. To select where to save the video, you can follow these steps:
    • Type cd on the terminal.
    • Press Space
    • Drag the folder from File Manager and drop it on the terminal.
    • If you skip this step, the video will be saved on your home folder.

  2. To download the video you can use one of these procedures:

    2.1. Run youtube-dl video_url where video_url is the URL of the video.

    2.2. If you want to download many videos, you can follow these steps instead of 2.1:

    • Run the below command:

      xargs youtube-dl
    • Repeat the following procedure for each link:
      • Paste a link.
      • Press Enter
    • Press Ctrl+D

    2.3. If do you have a plain text file with a list of links, you can download them this way:

    • Type cat on the terminal.
    • Press Space
    • Drag the file form the File Manager and drop it on the terminal.
    • Press Space
    • Type | xargs youtube-dl
    • Press Enter

  3. Now the video(s) will download to the selected folder.

Some final thoughts:

  • On the method 2.3 the final command should look like this:

    cat '/home/foo/Desktop/myawesomevideos.txt' | xargs youtube-dl
  • You can also use the URL of a channel and youtube-dl will save the entire channel.
  • You can update youtube-dl with sudo youtube-dl -U
  • You can see all the options of youtube-dl with youtube-dl --help

Thanks to user185719 and Michael Grünewald for their contributions to this answer.

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You can use firefox as the browser and there are some addons which will enable you to download videos from youtube like this

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simply open an additional tab in the same browser and search for savefrom.net and open the website. Now open the youtube video and copy the URL when it starts playing. Paste that in the space given for URL in the savefrom.net website.

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