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How to download YouTube videos right from the terminal on Ubuntu

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Bill Toulas
Sep 1, 2016

Downloading YouTube videos has been one of the most common user activities since the rise of the world’s most popular entertainment content website. The reason to download something from YouTube can be to have access to it without having to be online, keep something that may get restricted in your geographic location in the future, or download music videos just to burn them on an audio CD. In this quick guide, we will take a look on how to download YouTube videos right from the terminal.
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