Download music from youtube using Linux

Simple procedure to download music from youtube using the command line in Lubuntu (probably works also in other Linux distributions)

16/11/2016

• Open Xterm
• Download software (needed only once):
  
  

  • sudo apt-get install parcellite

    (this helps to copy & paste from e.g. firefox navigaton bar to Xterm window)

  • sudo apt-get install lame

    More info about the mp3 encoder Lame

  • sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

  • sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

• Download a song (put everything on 1 line !)
  

  /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.......
  

• The mp3 file is saved in the current directory op your Xterm window

References:

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/237942/how-does-copy-paste-work-with-xterm
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/791969/error-while-using-youtube-dl
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/178481/how-to-download-an-mp3-track-from-a-youtube-video