YouTube-dl is a tool that you can use to download videos. It’s very easy to use and downloads webm or mp4 files to your system. Both formats provide compressed, high-quality video files that you can watch whenever you want.
Ways to Download YouTube Videos on Linux
using Firefox Add-on
If you click on the link above, you will get an option to add the extension to your Firefox browser. Please note that you are in the Mozilla Firefox browser while clicking the link. If you have not already installed the extension, please click on the link below to do so.
You will see a prompt to add the add-on, as shown in the figure below. Click Add.
We need to add a video capture button to the Video DownloadHelper so that you can easily capture videos from your YouTube tab and save them to your computer.
The Companion App for Debian / Ubuntu can be downloaded by clicking on the Install Companion App button. A new tab will open in your browser with the option to download the Companion App for Debian / Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. In my case, I’m using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS; so I’ll proceed to download the .deb file.
using ClipGrab application
Clipgrab is an application that allows you to download videos from various websites. It is a cross-platform software package that is available for Linux, Windows and macOS. It comes with an amazing user interface that is highly praised for its ease of use.
sudo apt-get install clipgrab To use ClipGrab, open a terminal and type the following command. clipgrab ..
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS does not have a release file for the Clipgrab PPA, so after successfully adding the PPA and trying the update command, you may get an error message like “The repository ’ focal Release’ does not have a release file.”
To get around this, we will use the ClipGrab AppImage file. This will work on Ubuntu 20.04 as well as other Linux distributions that support AppImage. ..
Final Words
How to Download YouTube Videos on Linux yt-dlp is a fork of the now inactive YouTube-dl tool, which was primarily used to download videos from various websites, including YouTube. It’s a really useful tool that lets you download videos, audio and subtitles at a specific resolution. You can also use it to stream a video directly to your media player.
