Download youtube videos via mac terminal

Youtube Downloader - Mac - Using terminal.md

1. Open terminal.
2. Use any one of following to install youtube-dl (A downloader written in python).
   • Fire these 2 command if you have curl installed.

   sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl 
   sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
   

   • Fire these 2 commands

   sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
   sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
   

   • Fire this command if you have homebrew installed

   brew install youtube-dl
   

3. To download a youtube playlist, use the following command.

   youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' PLAYLIST_LINK
   

   • Example

   youtube-dl -o '%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwiyx1dc3P2JR9N8gQaQN_BCvlSlap7re
   

4. To Download all playlists of a youtube channel, use the following command.

   youtube-dl -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' LINK_TO_CHANNEL_PLAYLISTS
   

   • Example

   youtube-dl -o '%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s' https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation/playlists
   

For more info visit rg3/youtube-dl

Where is it saving files? I can't find it

@vadimpusc

run one of these commands:

whereis youtube-dl

which youtube-dl

type youtube-dl

to found out

It is exceptionally slow though.