Ripping Youtube vids on the cmd line

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>

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>

I think you can also do this in Windows with Cygwin, but I haven't tried that.

UPDATE:

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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

Comments

[Rishabh Gupta]

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

[Ted Hagos]

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]

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]

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

[Ted Hagos]

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