Saving videos from YouTube

Thanks to the efforts of Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez, the creator and maintainer of youtube-dl you can download YouTube videos to your computer to view offline.

This script is for GNU/Linux platforms only, and will save the video as it's ID string .flv.

1. Get youtube-install script
2. run the script as super user to install globally
3. once you see "Youtube installed" you can then run youtube-dl to download the movie that link points to.
   

If you ever want to see what the video's YouTube page looks like again after downloading, you can always substititute the filename into a v= url.