[Ubuntu] How to download youtube and facebook videos

First install youtube-dl from terminal
– sudo apt install youtube-dl
To download video,
– copy url from address bar
– in terminal, type
youtube-dl “copied url” (including double quote)
Bingo!

So, where’s downloaded videos?
Normally, youtube-dl saves videos in working directory of terminal, may be Home.

You can set default destination as you like in two methods.

> First method <
Set destination manually by using -o option like
youtube-dl -o ~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s “copied url”
This will save the video in Desktop.

> Second method <
open terminal and type
gedit ~/.config/youtube-dl.conf
and copy the following text and save.
–output “~/Desktop/VideoDownloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s”
Further downloads will go to Desktop automatically.

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