Youtube-dl (Youtube video download via Terminal or Linux Console) on Debian 6

Yesterday, I tried to download a video from youtube. In Windows, how to download videos from youtube are very easy. there are many youtube downloader site supported for it. moreover if you used IDM, it's make very simple to download youtube videos.

Then, I tried how to download youtube videos from terminal. First you must install Youtube-dl.

# apt-get install youtube-dl

If you can't use that command you can download manually from this site. You must chose one of many repository from that site, then it will be automatically download.

then you can download youtube from terminal. For the example, please follow this step :

First, change directory to your destination folder, where that folder is location for save your videos.

$ cd /home/anita-muy/Downloads 

type this on your terminal (for example I downloaded RHCP new music videos)

~/Downloads$ youtube-dl -o RHCP.mp4 "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnisBb2rVOg&feature=branded"

then, you can download that video from youtube and wait the download process.

If you have some problem to download it, please check your internet setting.