Homepage: http://linuxhelp.150m.com/ The other day I needed to download a youtube clip. On searching the internet, I came across this site: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ which provides a Python script, youtube-dl, that does the job, very well. You can download it from here: http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl or local copy. Most Linux installations will already have Python installed, so you just need to do the following: bunzip2 youtube-dl.bz2 (only for the local copy) chmod +x youtube.dl mv youtube.dl /usr/bin To verify the download, check the MD5 sum: md5sum youtube.dl It should be, MD5: b386b8218b049ede0df6052c1a759f84 (updated 02/02/2008) You use youtube-dl as follows: youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKLOlIhang This particular youtube clip (from 911speakout.org) proves, yet again, that 9/11 was an inside job. If you do not have permission to move youtube.dl to the directory /usr/bin. Just go to the directory where it is saved and run it as follows: ./youtube.dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUKLOlIhang In both cases, the video will be saved in the directory that you issued the command from. To watch it, enter: mplayer aUKLOlIhang.flv or use one of the other Linux movie players. For the command line options, type: youtube-dl -h |