you tube downloder

Question

Hi i just get rid of windows and i have installed Ubuntu. I have two questions:

1. I'm trying to download you tube to mp3 and when it starts is says that some files are missing from Ubuntu.

2. I downloaded all video downloader and when i paste the link it says that can not found the link.

Thanks a lot Dimitris

Answer 1

for mp3 playback ,you first have to install the required plugins because they are not free and not included in ubuntu by default. refet to this question to read more

enabling the multiverse source in your /etc/apt/source.list and a simple

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras should get you going.

for Youtube videos , use youtube-dl , it's a python script

downloading is as simple as youtube-dl "youtube-video-url" , by default it downloads the highest quality available.

it supports downloading from playlists,with subtitles and combining dash videos, meaning you can have a low quality video with high quality audio etc.

to see what formats exist for a video youtube-dl -F "utube-video-url"

you now just have to select the combinaison of video+audio you like

youtube-dl -f 135+171 "url"

or

youtube-dl -f 135+bestaudio "url"

youtube-dl -f worstvideo+171 "url"

this downloads the audio only, note that you won't have an mp3 file but either a .webm , .mp4 or a .mp4a with audio only.

youtube-dl -f bestaudio "url"

Answer 2

"ClipGrab" is a amazing web video downloader. You can even search youtube videos in it! To install it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install clipgrab

And it should be in the Dash!