Download your favourite Youtube videos on Linux

Karimhemina
1 min readJul 18, 2020

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In this short story, I am sharing with you a very useful command to download youtube videos on Linux

Youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

First, we have to install the program

Copy and paste these three commands into your terminal

sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

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

hash -r

To download the video you want, use the following command

youtube-dl video’s_URL

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=245tJt9MIgU

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