how to download youtube videos on Linux centOS 6.4
####install youtube-dl
yum install youtube-dl
for download any video you should type following command with youtube URL
youtube-dl <video URL>
for example:-
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI
common error:-
[root@elitebook rajiv]# youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI Setting language
U2vvLAPmpeA: Downloading video webpage
U2vvLAPmpeA: Downloading video info webpage
U2vvLAPmpeA: Extracting video information
ERROR: unable to download video
to fix this error you need to update the youtube downloader by following command:-
youtube-dl -U
now you can see the progress:-
[rajiv@elitebook ~]$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI
Setting language jYTNHLfpQTI: Downloading video webpage
jYTNHLfpQTI: Downloading video info webpage
jYTNHLfpQTI: Extracting video information[download] Destination: introduction of Centos 6.4-jYTNHLfpQTI.webm
[download] 100.0% of 13.41MiB at 2409.86KiB/s ETA 00:00
[rajiv@elitebook ~]$
you can download a list of youtube video links by this command
youtube-dl -a youtube_list.txt
you can download in other available formats of video
youtube-dl -F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI
for example:-
[rajiv@elitebook ~]$ youtube-dl -F http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI
Setting language
jYTNHLfpQTI: Downloading video webpage
jYTNHLfpQTI: Downloading video info webpage
jYTNHLfpQTI: Extracting video information
Available formats
:45 : webm [720×1280]
22 : mp4 [720×1280]
44 : webm [480×854]
35 : flv [480×854]
43 : webm [360×640]
34 : flv [360×640]
18 : mp4 [360×640]
5 : flv [240×400]
17 : mp4 [144×176]
[rajiv@elitebook ~]$
To download the file in your preferred format, type
youtube-dl -f <format code> <video url>
for example lets download mp4 format:-
youtube-dl -f 22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI
To Download the audio for youtube video
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI –extract-audio
to extract audio as a mp3
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYTNHLfpQTI –audio-format mp3
Enjoy Youtube 🙂
Fantastic.. will try for sure
hi, i have used all steps in my centos 6.4 x86_64 , but itsn’t work.kindly tell me how can i downlaod youtube videos?? plz help me. thnax
Thanks for such a great software. It is exactly what I needed for my comedy site. It would be nice to make it possible to pass in a name as an argument to the command so video is renamed to that after download completes. Cheers for the good work. Please keep it up 🙂
Please ignore my request. Just discovered that the tool already does that with –id flag
thank you very much sir
it does not work now…plz check it…any other guide plz..