{"id":2203,"date":"2020-08-05T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2020-08-05T15:52:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T22:52:05","slug":"the-best-and-cleanest-way-to-download-a-youtube-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"The Best and Cleanest Way to Download a Youtube Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best and cleanest way is with the small, open-source utility youtube-dl:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rg3.github.io\/youtube-dl\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rg3.github.io\/youtube-dl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a command-line only tool. Works across all OSs (Windows, macOS, Linux). Read the docs or run&nbsp;<code>youtube-dl --help<\/code>&nbsp;to get a list of options (there are many).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in general you don&#8217;t need any of the fancy options, and downloading a video is as easy as running the program from the command line via this simple command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>youtube-dl https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/whateverURL<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The program is constantly updated to keep up with any changes youtube makes to their protocols.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best and cleanest way is with the small, open-source utility youtube-dl:&nbsp;https:\/\/rg3.github.io\/youtube-dl\/ This is a command-line only tool. Works across all OSs (Windows, macOS, Linux). Read the docs or run&nbsp;youtube-dl &#8211;help&nbsp;to get a list of options (there are many). But in general you don&#8217;t need any of the fancy options, and downloading a video is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=2203\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-microsoft","category-website","category-windows-7-8-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}