A new build youtube-dl is out just in time. The new site of youtube launched last week and since the change I haven’t been able to use the build of youtube-dl that is available in the Ubuntu repository. If you go to bitbucket.org you can grab the newest build. Don’t forget to make the file executable. You can do that by typing:
sudo chmod +x youtube-dl
To run that application all you need to do is run:
youtube-dl -f 18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IOt2v5aJZA
Of course replace the link I wrote with the link of the video you want to download. Installing this application on your machine is as simple as copying the script to your /usr/bin folder like so:
sudo cp youtube-dl /usr/bin/
That’s all for now, enjoy!