youtube-dl

a small command-line program to download videos from youtube and many other sites.

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augmentable with frontends such as youtubedlg , youtubedl is a small commandline program to download videos from youtube and a hundreds other sites. it requires the python interpreter and is therefore platformindependent.

it can be integrated in other programs and so be used to watch online videos in local applications such as mpv .

Links to official youtube-dl sites

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Customizable Command line interface Automatic downloading Download YouTube Playlist Download from Soundcloud Convert YouTube videos to Mp3

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The Best 132 youtube-dl Alternatives

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