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Vipin Verma
Asked: 2013-03-05 00:35:57 +0800 CST

How to download YouTube videos via HTTPS

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I am unable to access YouTube on HTTP. But I can access the same on an HTTPS.

When I executed the command wget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw it returned the following response:

--2013-03-04 13:09:28--  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw
Resolving www.youtube.com (www.youtube.com)... 74.125.236.167, 74.125.236.160, 74.125.236.164, ...
Connecting to www.youtube.com (www.youtube.com)|74.125.236.167|:443... connected.
Unable to establish SSL connection.

Please guide me on how to download the YouTube videos on HTTPS.

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5 Answers

  1. Just don't use wget.

    sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw

    Works on my system.

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  2. Best Answer

    Found from some other Question:- Use the URL savefrom.net and type in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw. Press Download button and you can download it in any format :)) No matter whether you access it via HTTPS or HTTP

    you can download the chrome app also from here>> http://en.savefrom.net/user.php

    enter image description here

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  3. you can't use wget to download video from youtube because the adress is just the webpage of the video, not the video file.

    youtube-dl works with https (actual version).

    i don't know if you have fixed your problem with youtube-dl, but if you followed the installation procedure mentioned on the website (and installed it in /usr/local/bin), you should specify the output folder, like this :

    cd /usr/local/bin
sudo youtube-dl -o '/home/username/Music/test.flv' https://www.uTube.com/v?=

    by default youtube-dl download the best quality

    another alternative is clipgrab.

    it comes with a nice GUI :)

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  4. Why don't you use the Video Download helper addon on firefox. Works great for me

    Here's the link :

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/?src=ss

    and it works with HTTPS.

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  5. According to your question and your location it might be that you are behind some restrictive network settings. So best is to enable HTTPS by default. You can install the plugin HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox or Google Chrome. This plugin tries to access YouTube as well as other pages per HTTPS by default. Furthermore the Firefox addons page has several plugins which allow you to download videos. For instance Video DownloadHelper works on several video pages. With both plugins combined you can download videos over HTTPS.

    If you need a plugin for Chromium, have a look at this answer and also other answers for this question.

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