• Download YouTube videos (Linux)

    by  • May 29, 2010 • Audio and Video • 1 Comment

    Want to know how to download a YouTube video? Just go and watch the video! It’ll automatically be downloaded for you. Let me explain further…

    While you watch the video on the web it is being downloaded for you to your /tmp directory. Try it out:

    1. go watch any YouTube video
    2. go to /tmp
    3. you’ll find a mysterious file name there without any extension reference. Double click and you should see that is is your video. If you’d like change the file name to something you’ll remember better and move it to whichever folder you want.

    The  file downloaded will be .flv so if you want another format later on, please use a converter app.

     

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    One Response to Download YouTube videos (Linux)

    1. data center San DiegoNo Gravatar
      April 26, 2012 at 10:37 am

      This is an excellent tip, and it’s by far the fastest way to download a video from youtube under linux. I personally use listentoyoutube.com to convert videos to mp3 and I also have a firefox addon for downloading youtube videos.

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