



Prerequisites for Using YouTube Downloader Appsīefore you try some of the options mentioned below, you will need to have youtube-dl and FFmpeg installed on your system to be able to download / choose different format to download.įFmpeg is optional but if you want to download high-quality videos, you would need it. You are better off with the other video downloaders mentioned here. But you should not use xVideoServiceThief anymore as it has not seen any new developments in years. It was a popular video downloader for Linux for years. I would also like to mention xVideoServiceThief here. However, the installation instructions here will be limited to Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions. The YouTube downloading tools mentioned here should work on any Linux distribution. If you do not want to rely on a browser extension for your video downloads, you can install a desktop tool.
