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Hey there, its been a long time since I had posted some thing.. This time I came up with this interesting command line tool called “youtube-dl”Note: I am not the author of this tool just sharing it with all audience of my blog.To install on Ubuntu/Linux Mint please enter the following commands: ``` sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install youtube-dl ``` Once downloaded and installed this beautiful utility, just hop over to the video you want to download.
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- Now open your terminal, cd to the directory where you want to download the video. - To Check the available formats of the video, enter: ``` youtube-dl -F youtube-link ``` - When you execute this command you will see the list of available formats for the same video. Note down *format code.* - Now download the video with resolution of your choice: ``` youtube-dl -f "format-number" "youtube-link" ```
Enjoy!!

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