lina wrote: > Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > You could just use apt-get or aptitude to install the youtube-dl package. > > To use it you can just issue a command like > > > > $ youtube-dl <address of YouTube video you want to download> > > > > That will put the video in your home directory. I use youtube-dl all of the time. Works great. But as the youtube site changes you need to keep the script updated. Since it is just a script usually the latest one from Sid can be used on the old Stable with no trouble. Works for me. > $ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I&feature=related > [1] 18854 You almost always need to quote the URL. See that "&" in it? That ampersand is special to the shell. It says to run the commandin the background. URLs often have those. Therefore you often need to quote the URL when used as a command line option argument. Bob
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