LXer: Youtube-dl - Download videos from Youtube in openSUSE
 

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youtube-dl is a small free opensource command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com. youtube-dl is a platform independent tool that works on UNIX, Linux, Mac OSX and Windows. The latest version of Youtube-dl is 2008.08.09 and requires the Python interpreter, version 2.4 or later. I’ll try to keep it updated if YouTube.com changes the way you access their videos. After all, it’s a simple and short program.

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When I want to get youtube or any flash video downloaded onto my harddrive, I just let it load, and then copy the file called Flash* in /tmp to a directory of my choice.