I will show you how to get youtube-dl on your system and also how to download a whole playlist.

In this example we will download the “Netgear Smart Network / Genie Developer Tutorial Videos” from youtube so that you can have them for offline viewing. First we get the playlist link which has the word playlist? in it

And videos like this one on How Linux is Built just have a watch? string in them

The problem with offline viewing is if updates comeout then your not up to date with them. With internet being every where nowadays offline viewing is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Anyhow I just wanted to let you know that incase your using the Netgear Smart NEtworking Developer Tutorial Videos, make sure you have the most up to date ones (not sure if updates will be made on it, its probably just single editions) because if you dont, you cant sue me as I just warned you 🙂

YOUTUBE-DL

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What is youtube-dl?

Which downloads the best quality videos by default

Can list quality and download other or all qualities per video

Can do the same for playlist

For debian install guide:

DL here: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/youtube-dl/download

wget <LINK>

ls -lisah

dpkg –contents <DOWNLOADED.deb>

dpkg -i <DOWNLOADED.deb>

IF HAS ERROR INSTALL THE DEPENDENCY

For example it had error about something like dialog

I googled it and it said I needed the dialog package

So: apt-get install dialog

Then repeat: dpkg -i <DOWNLOADED.deb>

If more errors repeat process, google, download, retry.

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USING IT

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Try to update it (it prob wont since you downloaded it with deb file)

youtube-dl -U

To DL Video or Playlist put the Video or playlist URL in quotes below

cd /downloadarea

youtube-dl “PLAYLIST or VIDEO LINK”

-c resumes dls

-i continue on download errors

-t use title in

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EXAMPLE

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EXAMPLE – These are the Netgear SmartNetwork Developer Videos:

It will download 1 gig worth of videos