youtube-dl
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A platform-independent command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube and 1000+ sites. Supports playlists, subtitles, and multiple formats.
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Python
- TrueOS
- Haiku
Discontinued
Last version was in December 2021. An active fork is 
yt-dlp.
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Install from the command line
winget install -e --id youtube-dl.youtube-dl
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simple but efficient commandline tool. I used it to download complete playlists of videos from Youtube with there original subtitles.
youtube-dl can be slow with some versions!
I confirm 50 KiB/s speeds with version 2021.12.17 (latest release on GitHub) right now with googlevideo.com. Read these topics for more examples:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/30184 https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30102
youtube-dl is a command-line program –– can anyone recommend a graphical program for downloading videos?
https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
The fact that it's free and open source is reason enough to use it.
I liked youtube-dl. I used it in 2013-2015, it seemed to stop working. Today (2022) I downloaded it, and it seems to work again,yeah! I use it to cache movies that are slow to download so I can watch them later with out waiting for buffering.
Because it is simple
there are lots of features