"Publishing your own video on YouTube, or watching other people's videos, is all the rage these days. Why are we talking about YouTube, in a column about the CLI? Because this week we're writing about youtube-dl, a clever little CLI tool that's easy to install and use to fetch YouTube videos.
"Youtube-dl is a Python script, licensed under the 'non-copyleft' free software MIT/X11 license. It is not platform-specific; it can run under Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows platforms so long as a recent--2.4 or later--version of Python is installed..."