Download Youtube videos right from your Terminal or Command Prompt

I am sure that everyone of you had a moment in your life where you googled for "Download YouTube Videos" and may have got yourself victimized by some trials which become a pain when they start "requesting" for money. Right?

Here I am referring a nice and easy tool to download those videos - youtube-dl.

Its an open source tool with a very good team at support at their IRC server.

First download youtube-dl:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

OR download the .exe counterpart for windows from http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Then go to YouTube and grab the address of the video that you want.
Once copied, type this in terminal or cmd to start downloading:
youtube-dl (paste the address here)

Example:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbC12Aetc

After it's finished downloading, check your Home folder, it should be there.
The file name is usually the same as the address i.e. V2y92H2kiIM.mp4

By adding the -f option after the link in terminal or cmd, you can specify the video format to be downloaded. Add the -F option to see all valid formats. If you have an order of preference other than best quality, specify the formats separating them with slashes: -f 22/17/18. You can also pass in an extension, like -f mp4/webm.

It also has an option for creating proxy connection using "--proxy URL".

You can get other options at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

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