How to Download Youtube Videos in Ubuntu Using Terminal

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Day by day I don't feel any remorse of leaving Windows for Linux, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is one of the wonderful things I have experienced on earth. Downloading Youtube videos with just a one line of command is awesome!



Now will show you how to get this:

• Firstly you need to get the youtube downloader package, in Ubuntu run this command
  

  sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

  
  


• Installed? Now try to download a video by using the video link
  

  $ youtube-dl https://youtube.com/watch?v=video_id

  
  


• Your video gets downloaded in the best quality and saved in your /home/user/ directory but what if you want a video of low quality and saves your data? Cool! View available file format for a particular video and download
  

  $ youtube-dl https://youtube.com/watch?v=video_id -F

  
  


• Now from the above screenshot we have format code, extension and resolution. Let's say I want to download flv (400*240) which the code is 5, I use
  

  $ youtube-dl https://youtube.com/watch?v=video_id -f 5

  
  


• The above command will download the .flv file format of the video and save in /home/user/ :)

Many features of Youtube Downloader I didn't mention here, just type youtube-dl -h for more :)