On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 15:10:27 -0600 Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@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