The Youtube-dl application supports many operating systems to download web video, including Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Youtube-dl also supports resuming features for video download, when the download gets interrupted, It will again start from resuming point.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install youtube-dl and how to use it on Debian 9 Linux.
Prerequisite
- A server or system running on Debian 9 Operating system
- An user with sudo privileges
System Update
It is general to update and upgrade system packages before installing a new package into the system. To update and upgrade your Debian system use below commands:$ sudo apt-get update –y
$ sudo apt-get upgrade –y
When your system gets updated, restart your system to apply all updated changes.
Install Youtube-dl on Debian 9 OS
Here we are going to explain the very simplest way to install youtube-dl in any Debian system. To install youtube-dl we need curl package, So first install curl into your system using the following command:$ sudo apt-get install curl –y
After installing curl, download the youtube-dl into your system using curl command:
$ curl –L https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/bin/youtube-dl
Now, you should change the permission for this downloaded binary file using the following command:
$ sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/youtube-dl
Now, youtube-dl is installed and working on your system.
Youtube-dl Uses
Now, when youtube-dl is installed and working in your system, you can use the following command to check all available options with youtube-dl$ youtube-dl –h
Youtube-dl has the capabilities to support more video formats such as MP4, 3GP, WebM, and FLV. You can check all the available video format for any video by using below command:
$ youtube-dl –F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooY7-eKAeA
You will get output like below where all the available format for this video is listed:
Output:
[info] Available formats for j_JgXJ-apXs:
format code extension resolution note
139 m4a audio only DASH audio 56k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz), 756.44KiB
249 webm audio only DASH audio 56k , opus @ 50k, 724.28KiB
250 webm audio only DASH audio 69k , opus @ 70k, 902.75KiB
171 webm audio only DASH audio 110k , vorbis@128k, 1.32MiB
251 webm audio only DASH audio 122k , opus @160k, 1.57MiB
140 m4a audio only DASH audio 146k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 1.97MiB
278 webm 256x144 144p 97k , webm container, vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.33MiB
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 102k , avc1.4d400c, 24fps, video only, 731.53KiB
133 mp4 426x240 DASH video 174k , avc1.4d4015, 24fps, video only, 1.36MiB
242 webm 426x240 240p 221k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.74MiB
134 mp4 640x360 DASH video 369k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 2.90MiB
243 webm 640x360 360p 500k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 4.15MiB
135 mp4 854x480 DASH video 746k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 6.11MiB
244 webm 854x480 480p 844k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 7.27MiB
247 webm 1280x720 720p 1155k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 9.21MiB
136 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 1300k , avc1.4d401f, 24fps, video only, 9.66MiB
248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 1732k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 14.24MiB
137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 2217k , avc1.640028, 24fps, video only, 15.28MiB
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)
Now, you can choose the format to download the video using the flag –f like below:
$ youtube-dl –f 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooY7-eKAeA
The above command will download the video in MP4 format at 640×360 resolution:
[youtube] j_JgXJ-apXs: Downloading webpage
[youtube] j_JgXJ-apXs: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] j_JgXJ-apXs: Extracting video information
[youtube] j_JgXJ-apXs: Downloading MPD manifest
[download] Destination: Lucknow se Aaya Mera Dost (Become YouTuber) | Vlog.mp4
[download] 100% of 6.90MiB in 00:47
You can download youtube video in MP3 audio format also using the following command:
$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooY7-eKAeA –x --audio-format mp3
You can also download the all video from specific youtube channel using channel’s url as show below:
$ youtube-dl –citw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSHW4sIysWm_Q69t7RE-slQ
Youtube-dl is also working good with a proxy network, so if you are using the proxy network, you can use youtube-dl as shown below:
$ youtube-dl –proxy http://proxy-ip:port https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uooY7-eKAeA
You can also download multiple videos using youtube-dl, you can create a text file with the list of video and use the following command:
$ youtube-dl –a video-list.txt
Youtube-dl GUI Installation
There is another tool called youtube-dlg, which is the graphical tool for youtube-dl. It is the best choice if you are looking for a graphical video download tool. It is also a free, open-source tool written in wxPython. This tool’s repository not included in the Debian system, so if you want to install youtube-dlg first, you need to configure the repository. You can add youtube-dlg repository into your system using the following commands:$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt-get update –y
Now, after updating the repository, you can install youtube-dlg by apt-get command, as shown below:
$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dlg –y
Now you can install youtube-dl or youtube-dlg any application in your system or server which will help you to download videos from various sites.
Conclusion
Now, you have learned to install youtube-dl successfully into your Debian 9 Operating system and uses of this tool. Now you are ready to download any video from youtube or youtube-dl supported sites.If you have any doubt, problem in instalaltion or any feedback, feel free to leave a comment below.