🎶 YouTube Audio Extractor API

This project provides a simple Flask-based API to extract audio from YouTube videos using yt-dlp. It serves a web interface where users can input a YouTube URL and download the extracted audio in MP3 format. 🚀

🛠️ Features

• Extracts high-quality audio 🎵 from YouTube videos.
• Returns the extracted audio as an MP3 file. 🎧
• Simple web interface built with Flask. 🌐
• Efficient audio extraction using yt-dlp. ⚡

📂 Project Structure

├── api
│   └── main.py         # Main Flask app
├── static              # Folder to store extracted audio
├── templates
│   └── index.html      # HTML for the web interface
└── README.md           # Project documentation

🚀 Getting Started

1️⃣ Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following installed:

• 🐍 Python 3.x
• 📦 Flask (pip install Flask)
• 🎬 yt-dlp (pip install yt-dlp)
• 🎛️ FFmpeg (for audio extraction)

2️⃣ Running the Application

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-repo/youtube-audio-extractor.git
   cd youtube-audio-extractor
   

2. To install the required Python packages, run the following command:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3️⃣ Start the Flask Application

1. Run the following command to start the Flask app:

   python api/main.py
   

4️⃣ Open in Browser

• Once the app is running, open your browser and go to:

  http://127.0.0.1:5000
  

5️⃣ Using the API

- Endpoint: /extract_audio

- Method: POST