Ripping Youtube vids on the cmd line
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Ted Hagos

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Ripping Youtube vids on the cmd line

Publish Date: Oct 4 '18
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Going through my old linux and macOS cheatsheets, I found this, youtube-dl; it lets you rip youtube vids and download them.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
youtube-dl <youtube vid URL>
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It's also available on macOS. If you use brew, you can get it with this

brew update
brew install youtube-dl

youtube-dl <youtube vid URL>
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I think you can also do this in Windows with Cygwin, but I haven't tried that.

UPDATE:

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Rishabh Gupta

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added in the comments. Windows users can also get this via a Python package. You can get the EXE from rg3/youtube-dl

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  • Rishabh Gupta
    Rishabh GuptaOct 4, 2018

    It's a python library so you have to pip install it in windows :-)

    • Ted Hagos
      Ted HagosOct 4, 2018

      Do you still need Cygwin for it? or is it available now from the NuGet repos (chocolatey). Is it why you need to install the Python dependencies?

      • Rishabh Gupta
        Rishabh GuptaOct 4, 2018

        You don't need cygwin but you'll need to install python. After that the package manager does its job of collecting all other dependencies

      • Rishabh Gupta
        Rishabh GuptaOct 4, 2018

        Also the youtube-dl devs provide windows executable i.e. an exe and you can run it from powershell or cmd

        • Ted Hagos
          Ted HagosOct 4, 2018

          Cool. I didn't know that. I haven't used Windows in a while. I'll update the article. Thanks

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