Re: Youtube - newbie guidance
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 15:10:27 -0600
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
...
> > I've never used youtube before.
> > I received a link to a youtube video <https://www.youtube.com/watch
> > ?v=82_bPWyrPFc> which played fine.
> >
> > I did not have time to watch the whole video.
> > How can I download and save it?
> >
>
> # apt-get install youtube-dl
> # youtube-dl <some-youtube-URL>
> # <some-media-payer> <name-of-downloaded-file>
Just one additional trick: as I learned from this list a while back,
mpv has a convenient hook script that invokes youtube-dl itself,
letting you just do something like:
$ mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlCUN975C0
Celejar
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