youtube-dl help

[ckonn]

Hello!

sometimes I download clips from youtube using the command "youtube-dl http://........... from the terminal. it works great, but I want to know, is there some more specific bash command, that will make the downloader to download the clip in a directory, which I want? can I point some directory in the bash command by using some path, or something like this? how such bash command would look like?

thank you in advance!

[Flemur]

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man youtube-dl

-o, --output TEMPLATE
...
Can also be used to download to a different directory, for example with
-o '/my/downloads/%(uploader)s/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .

[jimallyn]

I just use the cd (Change Directory) command to navigate to wherever I want to save the file, then run youtube-dl. There's another program called get_flash_videos that sometimes works on sites where youtube-dl doesn't.

[Hoser Rob]

Or you could just navigate to the folder you want to dl to with your file manager and right click on an open space in the window. There should be an "open terminal here" command in the drop down menu. Exactly what it says depends on your DE version but there should be something similar.

[ejazzkatt]

There is a Gui available for you tube-dl. I think I downloaded it from removed

[wong]

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youtube-dl -o /path/to/folder

short for:

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youtube-dl --output /path/to/folder

You could use ~/.bashrc to keep it consistent by adding 'youtube-dl --o /path/to/directory' as an alias for youtube-dl. I think it simpler to create a youtube-dl config file. Just create /home/me/.config/youtube-dl.conf containing the one liner "--output /path/to/directory/"

[Quexos]

Or the Firefox addon "Video DownloadHelper". Some youtube videos fail with it though. Another method that worked for me where Video DownloadHelper failed is to use KeepVid.com. I make a bookmark to it with the following in the location field:

javascript:(function(){window.open('http://keepvid.com/?url='+encodeURIComp ... tion.href)+'')})();

Then just click that bookmark while viewing the video.