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Youtube Videos Using Command Prompt CMD

The document provides steps for downloading YouTube videos using the youtube-dl application on Windows. It explains how to download the youtube-dl executable, open the command prompt and navigate to its location, then use the youtube-dl command followed by a video URL to download videos in different formats and extract thumbnails.

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Youtube Videos Using Command Prompt CMD

The document provides steps for downloading YouTube videos using the youtube-dl application on Windows. It explains how to download the youtube-dl executable, open the command prompt and navigate to its location, then use the youtube-dl command followed by a video URL to download videos in different formats and extract thumbnails.

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…To demonstrate the downloader in windows we have to download

an executable exe file from below link or their website


(https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html).

Download youtube-dl here. youtube-dl.rar (https://chillyfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/20


18/06/youtube-dl.rar)

Steps to Download youtube Videos


1. Download the youtube-dl and keep in any folder where you need
the videos to be downloaded. (You can also add youtube-dl to
environment variables of windows so that it can be used directly
from cmd, In this demonstration we have not added it so we have to
navigate to the location through cmd to use the youtube-dl).

2. Open command prompt and navigate to the location where


youtube-dl is placed.

3. Now grab the URL of the video from youtube.


4. Now execute the below command to download the youtube video.
The command format is.

youtube-dl URL [URL...]

So in our case the Command will be.

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExcOlKmZ1gI"

It will show the output in CMD as shown below.

The video should have downloaded in that folder

5. Now to get all the thumbnails downloaded with that video, You
can use the below command.

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExcOlKmZ1gI" --write-all-thumbnails


6. To see all the available formats that can be downloaded,

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExcOlKmZ1gI" --all-formats

7. To download a specific format of the video,

youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExcOlKmZ1gI" --format mp4

This will download the mp4 format of that video.

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