Think of it as a youtube downloader that works on many sites. It's a GUI round the popular YouTube-DL command-line program but with an easy to use.

Brief: Easily download YouTube videos in Linux using youtube-dl command line tool. With this tool, you can also choose video format and video quality such as 1080p or 4K. I know you have already seen. But those tools were mostly GUI ways. I am going to show you how to download YouTube videos in Linux terminal using youtube-dl. Install youtube-dl to download YouTube videos in Linux terminal is a Python-based small command-line tool that allows downloading videos from,, Photobucket, Facebook, Yahoo, Metacafe, Depositfiles and few more similar sites. It is 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.

The youtube-dl tool supports resuming interrupted downloads. If youtube-dl is killed (for example by Ctrl-C or due to loss of Internet connectivity) in the middle of the download, you can simply re-run it with the same YouTube video URL.

It will automatically resume the unfinished download, as long as a partial download is present in the current directory. Which means you don’t need just for resuming downloads.

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Youtube-dl features This tiny tool has so many features that it won’t be an exaggeration to call it the best YouTube downloader for Linux. • Download videos from not only YouTube but other popular video websites like Dailymotion, Facebook etc • Allows downloading videos in several available video formats such as MP4, WebM etc. • You can also choose the quality of the video being downloaded.

If the video is available in 4K, you can download it in 4K, 1080p, 720p etc • Automatical pause and resume of video downloads. • Allows to bypass YouTube geo-restrictions. If you are running Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, you can install it using this command: sudo apt install youtube-dl For other Linux distribution, you can quickly install youtube-dl on your system through the command line interface with: sudo wget -O/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl After fetching the file, you need to set a executable permission on the script to execute properly.

Sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl Using YouTube-dl for downloading videos: To download a video file, simply run the following command. Where “VIDEO_URL” is the URL of the video that you want to download.

Youtube-dl Download YouTube videos in various formats and quality size These days YouTube videos have different resolutions, you first need to check available video formats of a given YouTube video. For that run youtube-dl with “-F” option. It will show you a list of available formats. Youtube-dl -F Its output will be like: Setting language BlXaGWbFVKY: Downloading video webpage BlXaGWbFVKY: Downloading video info webpage BlXaGWbFVKY: Extracting video information Available formats: 37: mp4 [1080x1920] 46: webm [1080x1920] 22: mp4 [720x1280] 45: webm [720x1280] 35: flv [480x854] 44: webm [480x854] 34: flv [360x640] 18: mp4 [360x640] 43: webm [360x640] 5: flv [240x400] 17: mp4 [144x176] Now among the available video formats, choose one that you like. For example, if you want to download it in MP4 version and 1080 pixel, you should use: youtube-dl -f 37 Download subtitles of videos using youtube-dl First, check if there are subtitles available for the video.

To list all subs for a video, use the command below: youtube-dl --list-subs  To download all subs, but not the video: youtube-dl --all-subs --skip-download  Download entire YouTube playlist To download a playlist, simply run the following command. Where “playlist_url” is the URL of the playlist that you want to download. Youtube-dl -cit Download only audio from YouTube videos If you just want to download the audio from a YouTube video, you can use the -x option to simply extract the audio file from the video.

Youtube-dl -x The default file format is Ogg which you may not like. You can specify the file format of the audio file in the following manner: youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 And a lot more can be done with youtube-dl youtube-dl is a versatile command line tool and provides a number of functionalities. No wonder it is such a popular command line tool.

I have only shown some of the most common usages of this tool. But if you want to explore its capabilities further, please check its. I hope this article helped you to download YouTube videos on Linux. If you have questions or suggestions, please drop a comment below. Article updated with inputs from Abhishek Prakash.