How to download youtube Videos & mp3 in Linux ?
In this post, we will look at an interesting plugin available on Linux system known as youtube-dl to download youtube videos or mp3 on our Linux system.
Lets have a look how to install and use this plugin to download the youtube videos.
1. Download & Install YouTube-DL Plugin
[root@ngelinux ~]# wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --no-check-certificate --2018-02-20 03:29:50-- https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl Resolving yt-dl.org... 95.143.172.170, 2001:1a50:11:0:5f:8f:acaa:177 Connecting to yt-dl.org|95.143.172.170|:443... connected. WARNING: cannot verify yt-dl.org’s certificate, issued by “/C=EN/CN=Sample CA 2”: Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2018.02.11/youtube-dl [following] --2018-02-20 03:29:52-- https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2018.02.11/youtube-dl Connecting to yt-dl.org|95.143.172.170|:443... connected. WARNING: cannot verify yt-dl.org’s certificate, issued by “/C=EN/CN=Sample CA 2”: Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases/download/2018.02.11/youtube-dl [following] --2018-02-20 03:29:53-- https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/releases/download/2018.02.11/youtube-dl Resolving github.com... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113 Connecting to github.com|192.30.253.112|:443... connected. WARNING: cannot verify github.com’s certificate, issued by “/C=EN/CN=Sample CA 2”: Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/1039520/88b1e0de-0f7b-11e8-8d08-31123707063f?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20180220%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20180220T112953Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=a0fb28151f13a157e3fb99147fcb10d33663b2523f89342b451193fd11f676ed&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dyoutube-dl&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following] --2018-02-20 03:29:55-- https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/1039520/88b1e0de-0f7b-11e8-8d08-31123707063f?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20180220%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20180220T112953Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=a0fb28151f13a157e3fb99147fcb10d33663b2523f89342b451193fd11f676ed&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dyoutube-dl&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com... 52.216.82.216 Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com|52.216.82.216|:443... connected. WARNING: cannot verify github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com’s certificate, issued by “/C=EN/CN=Sample CA 2”: Unable to locally verify the issuer’s authority. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1625851 (1.5M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl” 100%[==========================================================>] 1,625,851 163K/s in 10s 2018-02-20 03:30:07 (152 KB/s) - “/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl” saved [1625851/1625851] [root@ngelinux ~]#
2. Set permissions of read & execute on youtube-dl application.
[root@ngelinux ~]# chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl [root@ngelinux ~]#
3. List various screen resolution of youtube video available.
Below command lists various screen resolution like 360p,720p,1080p, etc.
[root@ngelinux ~]# youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFsEqOBG51M NFsEqOBG51M: Downloading webpage NFsEqOBG51M: Downloading video info webpage NFsEqOBG51M: Extracting video information NFsEqOBG51M: Downloading js player vfl8swg2e [info] Available formats for NFsEqOBG51M: format code extension resolution note 249 webm audio only DASH audio 69k , opus @ 50k, 2.27MiB 250 webm audio only DASH audio 89k , opus @ 70k, 2.98MiB 140 m4a audio only DASH audio 128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 4.85MiB 171 webm audio only DASH audio 156k , vorbis@128k, 5.30MiB 251 webm audio only DASH audio 166k , opus @160k, 5.78MiB 278 webm 256x144 144p 96k , webm container, vp9, 25fps, video only, 3.26MiB 160 mp4 256x144 144p 113k , avc1.4d400c, 25fps, video only, 2.11MiB 242 webm 426x240 240p 216k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 4.64MiB 133 mp4 426x240 240p 249k , avc1.4d4015, 25fps, video only, 4.03MiB 243 webm 640x360 360p 414k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 9.28MiB 134 mp4 640x360 360p 570k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 8.27MiB 244 webm 854x480 480p 772k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 15.94MiB 135 mp4 854x480 480p 1124k , avc1.4d401e, 25fps, video only, 16.98MiB 247 webm 1280x720 720p 1449k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 25.11MiB 136 mp4 1280x720 720p 1878k , avc1.4d401f, 25fps, video only, 27.81MiB 248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 2538k , vp9, 25fps, video only, 45.04MiB 137 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 2901k , avc1.640028, 25fps, video only, 45.04MiB 17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k 36 3gp 320x180 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2 43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k 18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k 22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best) [root@ngelinux ~]#
4. Download youtube video.
18 corresponds to 360p screen resolution as per the above output.
### Downloads the video to present working directory [root@ngelinux ~]# youtube-dl -f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaX-oGJEZI8 NaX-oGJEZI8: Downloading webpage NaX-oGJEZI8: Downloading video info webpage NaX-oGJEZI8: Extracting video information [download] Destination: Aaj Se Teri _ Padman _ Akshay Kumar & Radhika Apte _ Arijit Singh _ Amit Trivedi-NaX-oGJEZI8.mp4 [download] 100% of 13.24MiB in 00:28 [root@ngelinux ~]# ### Verify if the video is downloaded [root@ngelinux ~]# ls -ltr | grep -i aaj -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13878032 Dec 22 14:31 Aaj Se Teri _ Padman _ Akshay Kumar & Radhika Apte _ Arijit Singh _ Amit Trivedi-NaX-oGJEZI8.mp4 [root@ngelinux ~]#
5. How to Download MP3 Track from Youtube Video in Linux?
[root@ngelinux ~]# youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaX-oGJEZI8 NaX-oGJEZI8: Downloading webpage NaX-oGJEZI8: Downloading video info webpage WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: The read operation timed out NaX-oGJEZI8: Extracting video information [download] Destination: Aaj Se Teri _ Padman _ Akshay Kumar & Radhika Apte _ Arijit Singh _ Amit Trivedi-NaX-oGJEZI8.webm [download] 7.0% of 3.48MiB at 19.66KiB/s ETA 02:48
–audio-format specifies the audio format in which the file will be downloaded to our system.
The supported audio formats include “best”, “aac”, “vorbis”, “mp3”, “m4a”, “opus”, or “wav”.
“best” audio format is set by default.