Rip YouTube videos using youtube-dl

There have been many times I have been working on a project where I needed to incorporate videos found on YouTube but haven’t found an easy way to download them. In the past I’ve used sketchy chrome extensions that always seem to have limitations or left me wondering if I was leaving my system vulnerable to malware. This is where youtube-dl steps in. There are lots of options but this simple command will automatically download the highest quality version

youtube-dl https://url_of_video

For more info visit: https://youtube-dl.org