[lubuntu-users] Downloading YouTube videos on lubuntu.

[Francesco]

Il 05/02/2017 16:15, Ian Bruntlett ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to sort out something for a friend. He downloads YouTube
> videos on Windows 7 and his laptop was rootkitted a couple of weeks
> back. I was hoping to put something together using lubuntu on an old PC
> tower with the hope of him not getting rootkitted. He'll need something
> with a GUI.
>
> I am also trying to sort out something for myself, using Ubuntu to
> download YouTube video clips. Typically programming stuff. I've done
> some research and discovered that there is a Python programme called
> youtube-dl available from the Synaptic Package Manager. Any
> recommendations/suggestions before I install it? (I have done a backup
> of data files this afternoon). I am comfortable with the bash command line.

I have tried jdownloader2, quite heavy but works fine and can extract 
also only audio, or videodownloadhelper that is a firefox extension.