Download a Youtube Video in UBUNTU 9.04

You can download YouTube video with youtube-dl.

Install youtube-dl

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Download the video

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$sudo youtube-dl http://the-youtube-video-uri

Convert into MPEG format

aryan@aryan-laptop:~$sudo ffmpeg -i source.flv output.mpg

OR

You can download simply by the following steps:-

• Open a video in Youtube.
• Let it buffer completely.
• Then just Goto /tmp and find your buffered video in /tmp.
• From /tmp you can copy the video and paste where ever you want to store it.

Isn't that awesome to download youtube video!!!