Using youtube-dl in mac

downloading youtube videos in mac

to download youtube videos using small commas line program called youtube-dl from mac terminal it self . we have simple solution that needs you to follow the steps carefully

1. open up terminal .

 

  press ur launch pad that is rocket icon from system tray and type terminal in search bar it will open terminal 

type command ls it will display list of directories

use cd to go to appropriate folder

and use mkdr command to make a folder type like mkdr youtube to make youtube folder

now navigate to that folder using cd command

once your in mkdr command copy and paste following command

curl https://yt-dl.org/downloads/2014.03.04.2/youtube-dl -o Youtube-dl

above command will fetch youtube-dl in to your youtube directory

now give some permissions to it by following command

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

now your ready for the final step

type python youtube-dl -H if you see list of available commands your ready to go

now type python youtube-dl {youtube url here} to start downloading videos use youtube list url to download all list of videos