{"id":3107,"date":"2014-01-25T17:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shineservers.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:39:03","slug":"install-youtube-dl-command-line-video-download-tool-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shineservers.com\/2014\/01\/25\/install-youtube-dl-command-line-video-download-tool-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Install YouTube-DL \u2013 A Command Line Video Download Tool for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

youtube-dl<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0Python<\/strong>\u00a0based small command-line tool that allows to download videos fromYouTube.com<\/strong>,\u00a0Dailymotion<\/strong>,\u00a0Google Video<\/strong>,\u00a0Photobucket<\/strong>,\u00a0Facebook<\/strong>,\u00a0Yahoo<\/strong>,\u00a0Metacafe<\/strong>,Depositfiles<\/strong>\u00a0and few more similar sites. It written in\u00a0pygtk<\/strong>\u00a0and requires\u00a0Python<\/strong>\u00a0interpreter to run this program, it\u2019s not platform restricted. It should run on any\u00a0Unix<\/strong>,\u00a0Windows<\/strong>\u00a0or in\u00a0Mac OS X<\/strong>based systems.<\/p>\n

Recently,\u00a0youtube-dl<\/strong>\u00a0added video download support for\u00a017<\/strong>\u00a0new websites:\u00a0brightcove.com<\/strong>,auengine.com<\/strong>,\u00a0RingTV<\/strong>,\u00a0instagram.com<\/strong>,\u00a0Jukebox<\/strong>,\u00a03sat<\/strong>,\u00a0CSpan<\/strong>,\u00a0Statigr.am<\/strong>,\u00a0traileraddict.com<\/strong>,hotnewhiphop.com<\/strong>,\u00a0wat.tv<\/strong>,\u00a0tu.tv<\/strong>,\u00a0gamespot.com<\/strong>, tudou.com<\/strong>,\u00a0Wimp.com<\/strong>,\u00a0archive.org<\/strong>\u00a0andbreak.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

youtube-dl<\/strong>\u00a0also allows to choose specific avialable video quality format to download or let the program itself automatically download higher\u00a0quality video\u00a0from the site. It also has supports for user\u00a0specific playlist<\/strong>\u00a0downloads, options to add custom or\u00a0original title<\/strong>\u00a0to the downloadedvideo file.\u00a0proxy support<\/strong>\u00a0and many more.<\/p>\n

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First, you need to download the file using\u00a0Wget<\/strong>\u00a0and then install it using\u00a0RPM<\/strong>\u00a0on your system to enable the EPEL repository. Use below links based on your Linux OS versions. (Make sure you must be\u00a0<\/strong>root<\/strong>\u00a0user).<\/p>\n

RHEL\/CentOS 6 32-64 Bit<\/h4>\n
## RHEL\/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##<\/b>\n# wget http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/6\/i386\/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm\n# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm\n\n## RHEL\/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##<\/b>\n# wget http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/6\/x86_64\/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm\n# rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n
RHEL\/CentOS 5 32-64 Bit<\/h4>\n
## RHEL\/CentOS 5 32-Bit ##<\/b>\n# wget http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/5\/i386\/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm\n# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm\n\n## RHEL\/CentOS 5 64-Bit ##<\/b>\n# wget http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/5\/x86_64\/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm\n# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n
RHEL\/CentOS 4 32-64 Bit<\/h4>\n
## RHEL\/CentOS 4 32-Bit ##<\/b>\n# wget http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/4\/i386\/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm\n# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm\n\n## RHEL\/CentOS 4 64-Bit ##<\/b>\n# wget http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/4\/x86_64\/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm\n# rpm -ivh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm<\/pre>\n
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Once enabled, you can install using \u2018yum<\/strong>\u2018 package manager tool as shown.<\/p>\n
# yum install youtube-dl<\/pre>\n
Install YouTube-DL in Ubuntu\/Linux Mint and Debian<\/h3>\n
Ubuntu<\/strong>\u00a0users can download and install latest\u00a0youtube-dl<\/strong>\u00a0version from the\u00a0webupd8 PPA<\/a>\u00a0as shown.<\/p>\n
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard\/webupd8\n$ sudo apt-get update\n$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl<\/pre>\n
Update YouTube-DL<\/h3>\n
Youtube-dl itself can be\u00a0updated<\/strong>\u00a0to the latest version using the following command.<\/p>\n
# youtube-dl -U<\/pre>\n
How to Use YouTube-DL to Download Videos<\/h3>\n
To download a video file, simply run the following command. Where \u201cVIDEO_URL<\/strong>\u201d is the url of the video that you want to download.<\/p>\n
# youtube-dl http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw<\/strong>\n\n[youtube] Setting language\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Downloading video webpage\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Downloading video info webpage\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Extracting video information\n[download] Destination: Natural Skin Whitening Methods-VMkkaQZAK3c.mp4\n[download]  15.3% of 218.88MiB at 968.72KiB\/s ETA 03:16<\/pre>\n
To download a video in availabe file formats, use option \u201c\u2013all-formats<\/strong>\u201d with the command.<\/p>\n
# youtube-dl \u2013all-formats http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw<\/strong>\n\n[youtube] Setting language\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Downloading video webpage\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Downloading video info webpage\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Extracting video information\nAvailable formats:\n37        :        mp4        [1080x1920]\n46        :        webm       [1080x1920]\n22        :        mp4        [720x1280]\n45        :        webm       [720x1280]\n35        :        flv        [480x854]\n44        :        webm       [480x854]\n34       :       flv        [360x640]<\/strong>\n18        :        mp4        [360x640]\n43        :        webm       [360x640]\n5         :        flv        [240x400]\n17        :        mp4        [144x176]<\/pre>\n
To download a preferred file format, use the option \u2018-f\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0(video format code). For example, I would like to download\u00a0flv<\/strong>\u00a0format, So I use format code as \u201834<\/strong>\u2018 as shown below.<\/p>\n
# youtube-dl -f 34 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vKtwZmhX0lw<\/strong>[youtube] Setting language\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Downloading video webpage\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Downloading video info webpage\n[youtube] VMkkaQZAK3c: Extracting video information\n[download] Destination: Natural Skin Whitening Methods-VMkkaQZAK3c.flv\n[download]  16.9% of 32.57MiB at 916.81KiB\/s ETA 00:30<\/pre>\n
To download a\u00a0list of video<\/strong>\u00a0files, create a file and place all the\u00a0YouTube<\/strong>\u00a0links that you wish to download.<\/p>\n
# youtube-dl -a youtube_links.txt<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Type the following command in a terminal to list all the avialable options.<\/p>\n
# man youtube-dl<\/pre>\n
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