Download & watch Youtube videos from Terminal with mps-Youtube


Every time I change from one OS to another, I feel the same: I must find an app to download any funny videos my daughter watched on *Youtube* and never have one that fits my needs completely. I never thought in a *Python* script to do this task. Their name: **mps-youtube**

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[ Introduction ]

This script will allow us to watch videos, download them to any resolution, create lists local and much more, all from console.

[ Installation ]

You need to download [this](https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py) script and install it with: **python get-pip.py**

Now install **mps-youtube** with:

[sudo] pip install mps-youtube

Depending on the chosen operating system, you must install a player or another (see *GitHub* page for more detail).

To run it, simply type: **mpsyt**

[ Use ]


File format to download videos

Upon entering the application, you will have a *prompt* which ask us to introduce the commands to execute. Here I show you a few examples:

/Aladdin # Search with the word(s) desired

d 5 # Download video from 5th position. You can choose the file format (webm, mp4, flv, 3gp,...)

set player mplayer

h # Help

i 5 # Info about the 5th video

p,n # back page (p) & next (n)

Link: [github.com > mps-youtube](https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube)

Link: [xmodulo.com > How to access popular search engines from the command line on Linux](http://xmodulo.com/access-popular-search-engines-command-line-linux.html)