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you and the above poster are heros.

    $ youtube-dl
    The program 'youtube-dl' is currently not installed.
    You can install it by typing:
      sudo apt install youtube-dl

    $ sudo apt install youtube-dl

Not many things I love more than discovering that someone wanted the program I'm about to write, and wrote it better than I'd have had time to. This is why I still love the Linux/BSD ecosystem after all these years

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Just a note, in the FAQ[1] it states "distribution packages are often outdated". There are (very simple) cURL/wget instructions in the repo's README[2]. Then you can update with:

   sudo youtube-dl -U

There's also an .exe for Windows as well as pip, Homebrew, and MacPorts packages.

[1] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#how-...

[2] https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#inst...

youtube-dl is an amazing project in terms of the number of contributors and their passion for keeping it up to date and supporting a huge range of sites.

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/

Previous long HN discussions of the project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11452765

FYI to Mac users: brew install youtube-dl works just as well.

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