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Command Line Setup Steps for macOS

Launch Terminal in macOS, located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

If your current account doesn't have admin privileges, switch users by entering the following command (substituting the username of the admin account). Press return and enter your password at the prompt.

su your_admin_name

If you don't remember your admin username, the following command will list the users on your system. >

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Common youtube-dl commands

Download highest-quality copy of a video to the current directory:

youtube-dl http://some/video

Download video and convert to MP4 (also supports flv, ogg, webm, mkv, avi):

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Install FFmpeg with MP3 support on macOS

Initial Setup

If Homebrew is already installed, skip to "Install FFmpeg" below.

Launch Terminal in macOS, located at /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. To install a bundle of command-line tools provided by Apple, paste the following line into the terminal window and press return. When prompted, click "Install," then "Agree."

xcode-select --install

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