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YouTube is an online video site for viewing and sharing videos. Users can upload videos for personal and public use, as well as browse and view other's videos.

YouTube is a video sharing site created in 2005. Shortly thereafter, in 2006, the company was bought by Google. The two sites remain largely separate, but online credentials can be linked between Google and YouTube.

Nearly all of YouTube's videos are Flash videos, although the site is moving towards an HTML5 platform, and some videos are already in this format.

YouTube support high definition videos. The default resolution is 360p, but quality up to 1080p is supported, and there are some videos in the 4K format.

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How to download an MP3 track from a YouTube video

There are several Q&A threads that explain how to download youtube videos using the terminal. However, I would also like to learn how to extract the video's soundtracks as MP3 files--also using only the terminal. Answers briefly explaining how to…
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How to download playlist to mp3 format with youtube-dl?

I'm trying to download some videos in mp3 format. It's a playlist. How do I download the whole playlist using one command?
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How can I update youtube-dl?

I use youtube-dl to download videos for watching later offline. Usually, it works fine. However, due to frequent changes on the video sites, it sometimes requires a quick update. It wasn't a problem before on 13.04 but after upgrading to 13.10, I…
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How to download a youtube playlist with numbered prefix via youtube-dl?

I have a Youtube playlist, I want to download it but I want youtube-dl to name the files like 1-{name}, 2-{name}, ... n-{name} in order to be able to watch them in the same sequence as original Youtube playlist. In other words I need my downloaded…
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How to download youtube videos as a best quality audio mp3 using youtube-dl

I want to download YouTube videos as mp3 files in its best quality. The below code helps to download youtube videos as m4a but not us mp3 youtube-dl -f bestaudio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3…
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Downloading multiple files with youtube-dl

I use youtube-dl to download files from YouTube. I have tried downloading multiple files, but it is not working out for me. I have to open multiple terminals and start afresh every time I want to download a video. Can you help me to download…
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using youtube-dl to download entire youtube channel

So I'm trying to download an entire youtube channel using youtube-dl. I know that if you use the -F command, it gives you a list of the quality type of the videos. My question is this: how to download the best quality of all the videos so the…
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How to specify a filename while extracting audio using youtube-dl?

I can create an mp3 of a YouTube video with the following command: youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtOvBOTyX00 It creates an mp3 with the following filename: Christina Perri - A Thousand Years [Official…
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How to download the best video along with the best compatible audio with youtube-dl?

I want to use a format selector that is something like -f bestvideo+best audio whose extension is compatible with the video extension so that they don't need to be muxed into an mkv (WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be…
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youtube-dl from git no longer available

Right now I would download a small video from walkthroug from a game. so I started with alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ sudo youtube-dl -U ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later. alex@Guilmon:~/Videos$ after little bit searching I…
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Youtube says "This video is currently unavailable"

Chromium on Ubuntu 12.04. Youtube says: This video is currently unavailable I don't know why but this is the case for some videos, but not all. Well, most videos. And I don't know what's wrong. Anyone help?
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Where does youtube-dl download the videos to?

I have downloaded youtube-dl and the video download is complete, but when I search for the video, I can't seem to find it. Can anyone help?
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youtube-dl is not working

I am using youtube-dl to download some videos from youtube. But when I write: youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn_YodiJO6k I get: [youtube] Setting language [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k: Downloading video webpage [youtube] rn_YodiJO6k:…
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youtube-dl Troubleshooting: ERROR: This video is unavailable

Ubuntu 16.04: Verify latest youtube-dl version: $ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl youtube-dl is already the newest version (2016.02.22-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not upgraded. Why does video's URL fail? $ youtube-dl -F …
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How to download all videos on a youtube channel?

I always use youtube for getting information I need. What I want is a script or a command that grabs and downloads all videos from a given channel. NOTE: I tried youtube-dl but with no success.
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