Going through my old linux and macOS cheatsheets, I found this, youtube-dl; it lets you rip youtube vids and download them.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
youtube-dl <youtube vid URL>
It's also available on macOS. If you use brew, you can get it with this
brew update
brew install youtube-dl
youtube-dl <youtube vid URL>
I think you can also do this in Windows with Cygwin, but I haven't tried that.
UPDATE:
added in the comments. Windows users can also get this via a Python package. You can get the EXE from rg3/youtube-dl
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It's a python library so you have to pip install it in windows :-)
Do you still need Cygwin for it? or is it available now from the NuGet repos (chocolatey). Is it why you need to install the Python dependencies?
You don't need cygwin but you'll need to install python. After that the package manager does its job of collecting all other dependencies
Also the youtube-dl devs provide windows executable i.e. an exe and you can run it from powershell or cmd
Cool. I didn't know that. I haven't used Windows in a while. I'll update the article. Thanks