It might go against the point of youtube videos a little bit, but if you want to download videos from youtube for offline viewing, there's a handy package that can do this for you. Using your favourite package manager (apt, yum, zypper) install the youtube-dl package. It may need to install a few dependencies which will vary according your system.
Basic Usage
To download a video, it's simply a case of
youtube-dl <youtube-url>
The package will download the video at the highest available resolution, but if you don't want that youtube-dl can query the available resolutions and you can choose the one you want by using the -F option.
If you only want the audio from a youtube video you can use:
youtube-dl <youtube-url> --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 320
which will download in mp3 format with a bitrate of 320kbps
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