# The follwing command will display a list of video quality options to choose from # Here you paste the YT-video-URL by ctrl+shift+V I've chosen ~/Videos directory for downloading YT videos you can choose any other. You don't have to worry where all those downloaded files are going. I have written one script for my own use.

So combine all these in one shell script, make it executable and put it in a bin directory. But how would you know the variety of quality of files. To force it to download elsewhere you should use -o option and to select quality of video, there is -f option. If your name is Tom, then it is /home/Tom. With this in place all downloaded files will automatically go to your Desktop.īy default youtube-dl downloads files in the same directory from where you run the command. Then set a default download location in this file: -output '~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s' This example sends the completed download to your Desktop.Ĭreate a configuration file for youtube-dl as follows: touch ~/.config/nf Use the -o option with youtube-dl to manually give a location for the downloaded files: youtube-dl -o '~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s' 'youtube file url'Īnd of course substitute your actual url for 'youtube file url'. This behavior can be modified in either of two ways: Usually this is your $HOME environment, but not always.

Where does Youtube-dl download YouTube files?īy default youtube-dl will download the files in the current working directory of the Terminal that you have opened. It is simply run from any Terminal window as follows: youtube-dl url ĭetails of the command line options can be easily seen by running the following command: youtube-dl -hĮxperiment a little to make youtube-dl work as you wish.Ģ. This is because youtube-dl is run from a Terminal window only and does not come with icons, desktop files and the like.

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