Download YouTube Videos : The Linux Way !

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There are some sites like [KeepVid.com](http://keepvid.com) which
allow users to input a YouTube link and they would give you the
download link. So get the download link from this site and download
the <span style="font-weight:bold;">flv</span> file.

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2. Firefox Plugin

   There is a firefox [extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/)which allows you to download YouTube videos as you watch them. I haven't tried this.

3. Command Line Tools

   This is the safest and best way (for CLI junkies :-D). Download the script [YouTube-dl](http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/) (thanks to Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez for this nice script). Just put that script in your `~/bin or /usr/bin` directories or somewhere in the application path.

   To download the flv video do this :

   youtube-dl

   e.g : youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

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-   Get <span style="font-weight:bold;">ffmpeg</span> for your
    system. SuSE users can get it
    [here](http://packman.links2linux.de/package/ffmpeg).
-   Convert the <span style="font-weight:bold;">flv</span> video to
    <span style="font-weight:bold;">avi</span> (or any other format)
    using ffmpeg :
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    `ffmpeg -i my_flash_video.flv the_avi_file.avi`
-   Now drag and drop the avi file into your favorite video player n
    watch the video :-)

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282 # Abort here if in simulate mode

283 if cmdl_opts.simulate:

284     sys.exit()

282 # Abort here if in simulate mode

283 if cmdlopts.simulate:

284     condprint(video_data.geturl())

285     sys.exit()

#!/bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 2 ]

then

echo “Usage : $0 <youtubefilelink> <outputfilewithoutextension>”

echo “e.g : $0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA stevejobs”

else

outputfile=“.avi”

todnload=youtube-dl -s $1 | tail -n 1 -

echo “Got the file..”$todnload

axel -n 100 $todnload -o $2”.flv” # wget -c $todnload -O $2”.flv” .if you don’t use axel

echo “Download Completed…”

ffmpeg -i $2”.flv” $2$outputfile  # get the avi file

fi

utube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA steve_jobs

Just drag the *.avi to kaffeine and enjoy the speech by Steve Jobs !