YouTube Music Downloader

Download songs from YouTube by getting the audio from YouTube and the metadata from sources like Itunes and Gaana.

Why this?   |   Support the Project   |   Prerequisites   |   Setup   |   Usage   |   Change Defaults   |   Acknowledgements   

Why this?

This app downloads a song by getting the audio from Youtube sources using youtube-dl and then adds song information like artist name, album name, release date, thumbnail etc by fetching it from sources like Itunes and Gaana.

NO. YoutubeDL doesn't do that. All youtube-dl does is lets you download audio from a video that you specify. This app is not yet another youtube-dl clone.

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Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• ffmpeg

Setup

• PyPi

• AUR

• Gentoo

• Manual

  PyPi

  Available in PyPi here

  pip install ytmdl

  AUR

  Available in AUR here

  yay -S ytmdl

  Gentoo

  Available in src_prepare-overlay here

  # First set up src_prepare-overlay (as root)
  emerge -av --noreplace app-eselect/eselect-repository
  eselect repository enable src_prepare-overlay
  emaint sync -r src_prepare-overlay
  # Finally emerge ytmdl (as root)
  emerge -av --autounmask net-misc/ytmdl

  Manual

  • Hate your stable life? Love living on the bleeding edge?

    Clone the repo and install manually.

    git clone https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl && cd ytmdl && sudo python setup.py install

Usage

usage: ytmdl [-h] [-q] [--song SONG-METADATA] [--choice CHOICE] [--artist ARTIST]
             [--album ALBUM] [--disable-metaadd] [--proxy URL] [--url URL]
             [--list PATH TO LIST] [--nolocal] [--format FORMAT] [--version]
             [--pl-start NUMBER] [--pl-end NUMBER] [--pl-items ITEM_SPEC]
             [--ignore-errors] [--level LEVEL] [--disable-file] [--list-level]
             [SONG_NAME [SONG_NAME ...]]

positional arguments:
  SONG_NAME             Name of the song to download. Can be an URL to a playlist as
                        well. It will be automatically recognized.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet           Don't ask the user to select songs if more than one search
                        result. The first result in each case will be considered.
  --proxy URL           Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy. To enable SOCKS proxy,
                        specify a proper scheme. For example socks5://127.0.0.1:1080/.
                        Pass in an empty string (--proxy "") for direct connection
  --url URL             Youtube song link.
  --list PATH TO LIST   Download list of songs. The list should have one song name in
                        every line.
  --nolocal             Don't search locally for the song before downloading.
  --format FORMAT       The format in which the song should be downloaded. Default is
                        [MP3]. Available options are [m4a]
  --version             show the program version number and exit

Metadata:
  --song SONG-METADATA  The song to search in Metadata. Particularly useful for songs
                        that have the names in a different language in YouTube. For
                        Example, greek songs.
  --choice CHOICE       The choice that the user wants to go for. Usefull to pass along
                        with --quiet. Choices start at 1
  --artist ARTIST       The name of the song's artist. Pass it with a song name.
  --album ALBUM         The name of the song's album. Pass it with a song name.
  --disable-metaadd     Disable addition of passed artist and album keyword to the
                        youtube search in order to get a more accurate result. (Default:
                        false)

Playlist:
  --pl-start NUMBER     Playlist video to start at (default is 1)
  --pl-end NUMBER       Playlist video to end at (default is last)
  --pl-items ITEM_SPEC  Playlist video items to download. Specify indices of the videos
                        present in the playlist seperated by commas like: '--playlist-
                        items 1, 2, 4, 6' if you want to download videos indexed 1, 2, 4
                        and 6. Range can also be passed like: '--playlist-items 1-3, 5-7'
                        to download the videos indexed at 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7.
  --ignore-errors       Ignore if downloading any video fails in a playlist. If passed,
                        the execution will move to the next video in the passed playlist.

Logger:
  --level LEVEL         The level of the logger that will be used while verbosing. Use
                        `--list-level` to check available options.
  --disable-file        Disable logging to files
  --list-level          List all the available logger levels.

Change Defaults

The defaults can be changed by editing the config file in ytmdl folder in your .config folder

NOTE: The config will be created automatically the first time you run ytmdl and will be present in ~/.config/ytmdl/config

In case you want to create the config before the first run and edit it accordingly, do it the following way.

mkdir -p ~/.config/ytmdl; curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl/master/config > ~/.config/ytmdl/config

This will download the default config from the repo to your ~/.config/ytmdl directory.

Supported options to change are:

Name
SONG_DIR	Directory to save the songs in after editing
SONG_QUALITY	Quality of the song

SONG_DIR also takes values that are extracted from the song

Example format is /your/desired/path$Album->Artist->Title to save in the following way

|--your
    |--desired
           |--path
                |--Album
                        |--Artist
                                |--Title
                                    |--Song.mp3

Adding any tag at the end of the SONG_DIR between [] will be considered the name of the song.

Example format is /your/desired/path$Album->Artist->[Title] to save in the following way

|--your
    |--desired
        |--path
            |--Album
                |--Artist
                    |--Title.mp3

Supported options are:

Name
Artist	Artist Of the Song
Album	Album Of the Song
Title	Title Of the Song
Genre	Genre Of the Song
TrackNumber	TrackNumber Of the Song
ReleaseDate	ReleaseDate Of the Song

Acknowledgements

• Inspired from https://github.com/tterb/yt2mp3

• Thanks to the developers of youtube-dl, itunespy, mutagen, colorama and Python.

• Thanks to itunes and gaana for their awesome API's.

• Thanks to Nishan Pantha for search logic.

• Thanks to Biswaroop for testing in windows.