From six months after the previous launch, the launch of Utility youtube-dl 2021.12.17, which provides a command-line interface for downloading sound and video from YouTube and many other online sites and services, including VK, YandexVideo, RUTV, Rutube, PeerTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Twitter, and Steam.
For those who are unfamiliar with Youtube-dl, I must tell you that this it is par excellence a command line tool written in Python to help users download videos from the aforementioned sites and many other sites. One of the great characteristics of YouTube-DL is that it is a software that is not limited to working on a single operating system, but is cross-platform that runs on Windows, Linux / Unix and macOS.
YouTube-DL supports downloading from many sites in different formats, both as video and audio files. By default, youtube-dl will choose the highest quality, but you can get a low quality if you have a slow internet connection by passing a few options.
Other good features from youtube-dl include:
- Resuming interrupted downloads
- Extracting mp3 from video files
- Download all video files from a playlist
- Download only the videos uploaded in the last x days
- Set the maximum download speed
- Embed subtitles in video during download
Main news of Youtube-dl 2021.12.17
In this new version of the tool that is presented, it is highlighted that templates for extracting signatures from YouTube pages have been updated to troubleshoot after YouTube's JavaScript code was changed.
Another improvement that stands out in this new version is that improved the reliability of the handling of get_video_info processing calls and added a bypass for get_video_info requests, which resolved issues with uploading age-restricted videos. Updated list of alternate servers for accessing YouTube using the Invidious web interface. In case of errors, the debug data returned by the FFmpeg package is output.
On the other hand, another feature that is mentioned in the ad is that for Pornhub site, the ability to pull videos from pornhubthbh7ap3u.onion server is provided In the anonymous network Tor, the definition of access restrictions according to the geographical location of the user has been implemented and in the event that there had been problems with the transmission of the highest quality videos, this has been resolved.
We can also find that resolved issues pulling content from appleconnect, periscope, bilibili, umg.de, egghead, tvthek, and nrk services, while support has been discontinued for the liveleak service and support for pulling content from PeerTube's servers has been improved.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about this new version of Youtube-dl, you can check the details In the following link.
How to install Youtube-dl on Linux?
For those who are interested in being able to install this new version of the tool, they should know that in the case of Linux distributions, in most of these there are at least two options to be able to carry out the installation.
One of the options is to install the package found in the repositories of your distribution (although this method does not ensure that it is the latest version that is available, since this depends on the maintainers of each distribution).
In the case of those who are users of Debian, Ubuntu and any distribution derived from these, they can install by opening a terminal and typing:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
Now, in the case of those who are Arch Linux users or any other derivative of it, they can install by typing:
sudo pacman -s youtube-dl
While for those who are Fedora users, they can install with:
sudo dnf install youtube-dl
Now one of the methods that can be considered universal for almost any distribution is with the help of Snap packages. The only requirement is that your distribution has the support to install applications of this type.
To install, just type:
sudo snap install youtube-dl
Finally, the last method that is general for any distribution is using the installation script which you can download and run by typing:
sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
Last but not least, if you want to know more about the use of this tool you can consult various tutorials on the net or also its documentation this link.