youtube-dl is a small command-line tool to download videos. While it originally and still is used for YouTube.com, it supports many other video hosters like Anitube, Appletrailers, Archive.org, ARD, Arte, Blinkx, Bloomberg, CBS, clipfish, CollegeHumor, ComedyCentral, Discovery, dropbox, eHow, flickr, FranceTV, Google+, GorillaVid, Internet Video Archive, justintv, KhanAcademy, liveleak, MTV, MyVideo, NBC, Newstube, novamov Slideshare, SoundCloud, Southpark, Steam, SyFy, Veoh and Vimeo. It can save video MP4s and other provided formats or just extract audio tracks.
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minor feature: Introduce --output-na-placeholder. franceculture Make thumbnail optional. franceculture extraction. njpwworld extraction. comedycentral extraction. wat format extraction. americastestkitchen:season Add support for seasons. trovo Add support for trovo.live. aol Add support for yahoo videos. yahoo single video extraction. lbry Unescape lbry URI. 9gag and improve extraction. americastestkitchen Improve metadata extraction for ATK episodes. aljazeera extraction. minds Add support for minds.com. ard title and description extraction. spotify Add support for Spotify Podcasts.
