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Colab shell Terminal, ffmpeg, DeepSeek

For a disposable Linux command-line shell VM: Load/create a Colab notebook , Change the runtime type to 'T4' if you want to use an LLM (AI),  Paste the following into a cell and run it: XTerm !pip install colab-xterm %load_ext colabxterm %xterm An interactive terminal will start.

YouTube Download and Transcode in Google Colab

Summary:  Create a new notebook with 2 simple commands in a code block: !pip install yt-dlp !yt-dlp {youtube-link} The downloaded file will appear in the /content folder on your Google Colab VM.