I got home from work a couple of days ago and saw the new Mortal Kombat Rebirth mentioned in an article on Google News. After watching in awe at a video game movie that shows some promise, I began searching for a way to download and keep this video on my PC. I run Ubuntu, so I figured it would be a little more difficult to find something than if I ran Windows.

To my surprise, there is a nice command-line Python utility called youtube-dl. Since it’s Python, it will run on any platform: Windows, Mac, or Linux. There’s a guide on how to install, and various features… just run youtube-dl -h for more information.