YouTube is the most popular video sharing site – or I can say it has
videos about everything. When you’re watching videos on YouTube (Suppose
You’re using Ubuntu 11.10) and some of them are such videos that you
watch often – repeatedly, in that case you might want to download/save
it to your computer’s hard drive. That’s why, in this post you learn how
to download YouTube videos/movies while using Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), although tips is applicable for other Linux distro (Linux Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, Debian etc) too.
Although There’re many ways to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu but here some most easy and convenient techniques are explained – such as using minitube (A native desktop client for YouTube), Terminal and Browser plugins/add-ons. Choose any one – which suits you best.
Minitube is one of the best and cool application – for watching YouTube videos (without Ads? Yeah!) from Desktop, and of course for downloading videos. it’s very simple and easy to use – the GUI is also very good, tends to provide TV like experience. MiniTube has a lot of features and options to configure some things like – video size, related videos in left etc. Minitube is a cross-platform open source software (available in GPL, project is hosted at gitorius) – available free of cost for Linux based Operating System such as Ubuntu (although you’ve to pay if you want to use it on Windows/Mac). You can easily search the youtube videos using keyword or channel name.
How to download videos using MiniTube
it’s pretty simple, first play the video (you want to download), then click on Video -> Download and you’re done! The downloading process will be started, and by default the videos will be saved to /home/Videos. Then you will immediately notice a download section(link) in bottom, click on that for more information about the download (look at the snapshot).
2. Browsers Add-ons/Extensions
If you surf a lot and spends a lot of time with web browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome then you might want to download YouTube videos, right from the browser (while playing videos).
Extension for Chrome Users :
There is an extension called ‘YouTube Downloader’, developed by YouTube and Chrome Team (Google Inc). it will allow you save YouTube videos in three formats – mp4, mp3 and FLV.
Download/Install YouTube Downloader in Chrome
Add-on For Firefox Users
it’s a very similar plugin(as above) and there are many options to download videos in multiple formats with a single click.
Download Youtube Downloader for Firefox
3. Terminal
To download videos from command line – first install a utility – youtube-dl. Open terminal and execute - sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
Now, open the video in browser and copy the URL from the address bar. Then execute the following command - youtube-dl "URL_you_have_copied"
That’s All.. Let me know your opinion through comment.
Although There’re many ways to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu but here some most easy and convenient techniques are explained – such as using minitube (A native desktop client for YouTube), Terminal and Browser plugins/add-ons. Choose any one – which suits you best.
YouTube Downloader for Ubuntu 11.10
1. Minitube
Minitube is one of the best and cool application – for watching YouTube videos (without Ads? Yeah!) from Desktop, and of course for downloading videos. it’s very simple and easy to use – the GUI is also very good, tends to provide TV like experience. MiniTube has a lot of features and options to configure some things like – video size, related videos in left etc. Minitube is a cross-platform open source software (available in GPL, project is hosted at gitorius) – available free of cost for Linux based Operating System such as Ubuntu (although you’ve to pay if you want to use it on Windows/Mac). You can easily search the youtube videos using keyword or channel name.
How to Install Minitube on Ubuntu 11.10
Minitube is available in official package repository so install Minitube, simply Open Ubuntu Software Center and search for ‘minitube’; click install..and you’re done! Or use terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t) to install Minitube - sudo apt-get install minitubeHow to download videos using MiniTube
it’s pretty simple, first play the video (you want to download), then click on Video -> Download and you’re done! The downloading process will be started, and by default the videos will be saved to /home/Videos. Then you will immediately notice a download section(link) in bottom, click on that for more information about the download (look at the snapshot).
2. Browsers Add-ons/Extensions
If you surf a lot and spends a lot of time with web browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome then you might want to download YouTube videos, right from the browser (while playing videos).
Extension for Chrome Users :
There is an extension called ‘YouTube Downloader’, developed by YouTube and Chrome Team (Google Inc). it will allow you save YouTube videos in three formats – mp4, mp3 and FLV.
Download/Install YouTube Downloader in Chrome
Add-on For Firefox Users
it’s a very similar plugin(as above) and there are many options to download videos in multiple formats with a single click.
Download Youtube Downloader for Firefox
3. Terminal
To download videos from command line – first install a utility – youtube-dl. Open terminal and execute - sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
Now, open the video in browser and copy the URL from the address bar. Then execute the following command - youtube-dl "URL_you_have_copied"
That’s All.. Let me know your opinion through comment.
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