ClipGrab It is a software for downloading and converting content from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many other online video sites.
What is ClipGrab?
ClipGrab is a free software (also known as “freeware”) for downloading videos from many online sites such as YouTube or Vimeo.
ClipGrab can download from the following sites: YouTube, Clipfish, Collegehumor, Dailymotion, MyVideo, MySpass, Sevenload, Tudou, Vimeo.
Downloaded videos can be converted to the following formats: WMV, MPEG4, OGG Theora, MP3 (audio only), OGG Vorbis (audio only).
What else can ClipGrab do?
ClipGrab for Linux is available in several flavors!
You can either download our pre-compiled version or try a package for Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, or ArchLinux.
If you don't like precompiled software, you can also download the source code package.
Download ClipGrab https://clipgrab.de/es
Install ClipGrab using an unofficial PPA Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa -y
We refresh the system repositories and proceed to install the application, we do so with the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install clipgrab
Install ClipGrab using an unofficial PPA on Ubuntu 20.04 and above:
If you want to install this program using a .deb package, the 'xtradeb' team maintains the software package in an unofficial PPA, compatible with Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 20.10.
If you want to install the program, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the following command to add the PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps
After adding the PPA and updating the list of available software, run this command to install the tool:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt install clipgrab
Create the default installation directory for the Linux download manager app:
$ sudo mkdir /Apps/clipgrab/
Download and install ClipGrab-*-x86_64.AppImage on Ubuntu/Debian
Download and install ClipGrab-*-x86_64.AppImage on Ubuntu/Debian
// Descarga ClipGrab.AppImage
$ wget https://download.clipgrab.org/ClipGrab-3.9.10-x86_64.AppImage
// Dar permisos de ejecución como Aplicacion a AppImage
$ sudo chmod +x ClipGrab*.AppImage
// Instalar dependencias para la compilación
$ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev
// Crear ruta o directorio clipgrab
$ sudo mkdir /Apps/clipgrab/
// Ejecutable Clipgrab en /Apps/clipgrab
$ sudo cp -R ClipGrab.AppImage /Apps/clipgrab/
// Icono en /Apps/clipgrab/
$ sudo mv icon.png /Apps/clipgrab/
// Enlace simbolico ejecutable AppImage
$ sudo ln -sf /Apps/clipgrab/ClipGrab.AppImage /Apps/clipgrab/ClipGrab.AppImage
// Crear icono en menu aplicaciones de GNOME
$ sudo vim /usr/share/applications/clipgrab.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Clipgrab
GenericName=Internet
Comment=Clipgrab
Exec=/Apps/clipgrab/ClipGrab.AppImage
TryExec=/Apps/clipgrab/ClipGrab.AppImage
Icon=/Apps/clipgrab/icon.png
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass="clipgrab"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/x-javascript;application/x-php;application/x-java;text/x-javascript;text/html;text/plain
Categories=GNOME;Internet;P2P;Descargas;
Download and install clipgrab-*.tar.gz Source Code on Ubuntu/Debian
// Descarga ClipGrab.tar.gz
$ wget https://download.clipgrab.org/clipgrab-3.9.10.tar.gz
// Descomprimir
$ sudo tar -xvzf clipgrab-3.9.10.tar.gz -C /opt
// listar en directorio
$ ls /opt
clipgrab-3.9.10
// Nos situamos en la ruta /opt
$ cd /opt
clipgrab-3.9.10
// Dar permisos de ejecución como Aplicacion
$ sudo chmod +x clipgrab-3.9.10
// Nos situamos en la carpeta clipgrad:
$ cd /opt/clipgrab-3.9.10
// Instalar dependencias para la compilación
$ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qtwebengine5-dev
$ sudo apt install ffmpeg
// Compilar e instalar Clipgrab
$ sudo qmake clipgrab.pro && sudo make
To create the executable icon of the application in /usr/share/applications for the Desktop:
$ sudo vim /usr/share/applications/clipgrab.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Clipgrab
GenericName=Internet
Comment=Clipgrab
Exec=/opt/clipgrab-3.9.10/clipgrab
TryExec=/opt/clipgrab-3.9.10/clipgrab
Icon=/opt/clipgrab-3.9.10/icon.png
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass="clipgrab"
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/x-javascript;application/x-php;application/x-java;text/x-javascript;text/html;text/plain
Categories=GNOME;Internet;P2P;Descargas;
Permissions to the clipgrab icon on the desktop
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/clipgrab.desktop

We now have ClipGrab 3.9 installed to download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, etc.