Install YouTube-DL – A Command Line Video Download Tool for Linux

youtube-dl is a Python based small command-line tool that allows to download videos from YouTube.com, Dailymotion, Google Video, Photobucket, Facebook, Yahoo, Metacafe, Depositfiles and few more similar sites. It written in pygtk and requires Python interpreter to run this program, it’s not platform restricted. It should run on any Unix, Windows or in Mac OS X based systems.

Recently, youtube-dl added video download support for 17 new websites: brightcove.com, auengine.com, RingTV, instagram.com, Jukebox, 3sat, CSpan, Statigr.am, traileraddict.com, hotnewhiphop.com, wat.tv, tu.tv, gamespot.com, tudou.com, Wimp.com, archive.org and break.com

youtube-dl also allows to choose specific avialable video quality format to download or let the program itself automatically download higher quality video from the site. It also has supports for user specific playlistdownloads, options to add custom or original title to the downloaded video file. proxy support and many more.

Download YouTube Videos in Linux

Install YouTube-DL in RHEL/CentOS and Fedora

The youtube-dl program can be installed by enabling epel repository under your systems. Once enabled, you can install using ‘yum‘ package manager tool as shown.

# yum install youtube-dl

Update: If you don’t wish to add any third party repository, you can still install it right away using curl or wgetcommand as shown.

# curl https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
OR
# wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Note: Your system must have curl or wget packages installed to fetch the recent version youtube-dl file. If you don’t have them, you may yum to get it.

After fetching the file, you need to set a executable permission on the script to execute properly.

chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

Install YouTube-DL in Ubuntu/Linux Mint and Debian

Ubuntu users can download and install latest youtube-dl version from the webupd8 PPA as shown.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Update: Similarly, instead using any third party PPA, you can use curl or wget command to install latest version of youtube-dl script as shown.

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