One very minor annoyance I had was using it with BBC iPlayer. It works, but downloads the video as many dozens of tiny parts to reassemble. Since I use ~/Deskto

One very minor annoyance I had was using it with BBC iPlayer. It works, but downloads the video as many dozens of tiny parts to reassemble. Since I use ~/Desktop as my default downloads folder, I created this to keep my desktop uncluttered while it runs: ytdl() { mkdir /tmp/ytdl && cd /tmp/ytdl for item in "$@" ; do youtube-dl "$@" ; done ; mv /tmp/ytdl/* ~/Desktop/ rm -rf /tmp/ytdl exit } Now I can Ctrl + Alt + T a new Terminal window, type ytdl http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/... (can use multiple links) then minimise the window and move on to other things.