YouTube Music Downloader

Prerequisites   |   Important   |   Setup   |   Usage   |   Change Defaults   |   Acknowledgements   

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Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• ffmpeg

Important

After every update run the following.

ytmdl -s

Setup

Linux

Run the following commands from you terminal

# Install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

# Install ytmdl
sudo pip install ytmdl

# Setup the config file
ytmdl -s

Windows

• Download the repo and extract it.

• Run the following in cmd

   # Copy the config
   python ytmdl.py -s

• Download ffmpeg from here.

• Extract.

• Copy the three files in bin to C:\users\{username}\appdata\local\programs\python\python36\scripts\

Usage

usage: ytmdl [-h] [-q] [--version] [--url URL] [-s] [-l LIST] [--nolocal]
                [SONG_NAME]

positional arguments:
  SONG_NAME             Name of the song to download.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -q, --quiet           Dont ask the user to select songs if more than one
                        search result. The first result in each case will be
                        considered.
  --version             show the program version number and exit
  --url URL             Youtube song link.
  -s, --setup           Setup the config file
  -l LIST, --list LIST  Download list of songs. The list should have one song
                        name in every line.
  --nolocal             Dont search locally for the song before downloading.

In case of windows, use python ytmdl.py instead of ytmdl above

Change Defaults

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

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 considerd 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.