https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown
Given a YouTube or Vimeo URL, downloads the underlying video file, with a sensible file name. It downloads the highest resolution version of the video available: first it tries HD MP4, then regular MP4, then WebM, and finally FLV. It also works on playlists, and works as a bookmarklet to download the video you’re watching.
I liked it well enough.
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Usage:
./youtubedown.pl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=jNQXAC9IVRw
[ 1 ] 2020-10-29 – The URL format may be an anomaly from the automatic-modification that my Zsh does. It may just be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
For higher quality stuff, it begs for FFmpeg.
\sudo \apt-get install ffmpeg
decrufted