Homepage: webng.com/linuxhelp  How To Download youtube Videos  A few years ago, I needed to download a youtube clip. On searching the internet, I came across a site, which is now at, http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home/ that provides a Python script, youtube-dl, that does the job very well. You can download it from here: http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2010.04.04/youtube-dl or local copy. Most Linux installations will already have Python installed, so you just need to do the following:  bunzip2 youtube-dl.bz2  (only if you downloaded the local copy)  chmod +x youtube.dl  mv youtube.dl /usr/bin To verify the download, check the MD5 sum:  md5sum youtube.dl It should be, MD5: 6c3e2982b5a46ede4fd5d6e6ed280331 (updated 04/04/2010) You use youtube-dl as follows:  youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKLOlIhang This particular youtube clip (from 911speakout.org) proves, yet again, that 9/11 was an inside job. If you do not have permission to move youtube.dl to the directory /usr/bin. Just go to the directory where it is saved and run it as follows:  ./youtube.dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKLOlIhang In both cases, the video will be saved in the directory that you issued the command from. To watch it, enter:  mplayer aUKLOlIhang.flv or use one of the other Linux movie players. For the command line options, type:  youtube-dl -h An older version of this page can be found here.