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Can someone explain how youtube-dl works?
| 1. Use a browser to find the video you want.
2. When the video starts to play, select all the url from the address bar and copy it to clipboard.
3. In a terminal window / command prompt, give the youtube-dl command and then paste the url, then hit ENTER.
It will start to download the video at the current dicrectory.
youtube-dl --help
for more options and how to use them.
| what's that uwu
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| Yeah I don't get 3 either. Wouldn't you need to go to the folder where youtube-dl is in the command prompt first? What commands? What is the exact thing you type in there to make the thing do the things?
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ELI5:
1.) Get link to video and copy it.
2.) If on Linux/Mac: just open Terminal after installing youtube-dl. Or if you're in Windows, you'd need to maneuver to wherever youtube-dl is stored through command prompt — I recommend downloading the Windows executable, then placing it in C: for less hassle.
4.) Now, type in 'youtube-dl', press space, then paste the link you've copied earlier.
5.) Enter and profit.
| You will need to run it from the command line. youtube-dl is a CLI application. Provided you have the program somewhere in your run path, you basically:
youtube-dl https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcdef
| ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1,'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:600)'))
| I googled the error aparently I need to write --no-check-certificate also to make it work
hmmmm
| Well, the simple way is getting youtube-dl gui
| Just use an online YT downloader
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