So i was bored and lazy, and i decided to write an automation script for youtube-dl. It can be used with alt+f2, and automatically changes to the videos subdirectory of the home directory and downloads it in the background, completely out of the way. Here you go.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Youtube Auto-Redirection Downloader script designed by Jonathan Schuett. "
cd ~/Videos
youtube-dl $1
It of course has to be placed somewhere in $PATH to be useful. I chose /bin because i’m lazy, but it’s your prerogative.