Installing Youtube-dl

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posted Jan 29, 2018, 8:06 PM by MUHAMMAD MUN`IM AHMAD ZABIDI

Youtube-dl: It's the hacker's YouTube downloader.

Why use easy-to-use GUI based downloader when you can do it more efficiently using the command line ;)

Youtube-dl not available in the Ubuntu repo. To download from the official websiet, you need to download it using the curl command.

First, install curl.

$ sudo apt-get install curl -y

Then, download the binary:

$ curl -L https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dl

Next, change the permission of the binary:

$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/youtube-dl

Once installed, you can proceed to the next step.

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