Have you ever wanted to save a YouTube video for offline use? Well now it’s super simple to do with the easy to use command line utility youtube-dl.

Start by installing the utility either through your package manager (always the recommended approach) or from the project GitHub page here.

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

This utility comes packed with loads of neat options that I encourage you to read about on the project page but if you just want to quickly grab a video all you need to do is run the command:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/YOUR_REAL_VIDEO_HERE

So for example if you wanted to grab this year’s YouTube Rewind you would just run:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GuOjXYl5ew

and the video would end up in whatever directory your terminal is currently in. Can’t get much easier than that!