With ytdlmusic, you can download directly from YouTube music files in MP3/OGG format from your terminal, without using your browser. By default, it will match your request with a selection of 5 results with a breif summary to choose from or you can use auto mode to download automaticaly the first item.
- install Python 3 for your system
- install pip3 for your system #or pip if pip3 does not exist
- optional : install ffmpeg for your system if you want to use MP3 format (OGG otherwise)
pip3 install ytdlmusic #or with pip if pip3 does not exist
ytdlmusic --update to upgrade ytdlmusic
ytdlmusic --full-update to upgrade ytdlmusic, youtube-dl and youtube-search-python since 0.5 version
pip3 install --upgrade ytdlmusic #or with pip if pip3 does not exist to upgrade ytdlmusic with pip
pip3 install -ytdlmusic:x.x.x #to downgrade the app to downgrade ytdlmusic to a specified version with pip
ytdlmusic "the beatles" "let it be"
will return a 5 items result list from which to chose which item to download, as a mp3/OGG file in the current directory
~$ ytdlmusic "the beattles" "let it be"
artist : the beatles
song : let it be,
search the beatles let it be MP3/OGG with youtubesearchpython
1
Let It Be (Remastered 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYfEBY9NM4
4:04 - 75,940,717 views
2
Let It Be (Remastered 2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvDofigTKQ
3:51 - 13,390,170 views
3
The Beatles - Let it be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6X3IWLECY
4:15 - 29,202,773 views
4
Beatles Let It Be 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt9uBlRuBPw
3:55 - 326,823 views
5
Let It Be (Remastered 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR-3ajVftG4
3:53 - 1,684,647 views
which (1-5, 0 to exit properly) ? 2
future filename is : the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3
download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvDofigTKQ with youtubedl
[youtube] HzvDofigTKQ: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: the_beatles_let_it_be.webm
[download] 100% of 3.73MiB in 00:00
[ffmpeg] Destination: the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3
Deleting original file the_beatles_let_it_be.webm (pass -k to keep)
[ffmpeg] Adding metadata to 'the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3'
the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3 is ready
ytdlmusic --auto "the beatles" "let it be"
will dowmnload automaticaly the first item
~$ ytdlmusic --auto "the beattles" "let it be"
artist : the beatles
song : let it be
search the beatles let it be mp3 with youtubesearchpython
future filename is : the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3
download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYfEBY9NM4 with youtubedl
[youtube] QDYfEBY9NM4: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: the_beatles_let_it_be.webm
[download] 100% of 3.75MiB in 00:00
[ffmpeg] Destination: the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3
Deleting original file the_beatles_let_it_be.webm (pass -k to keep)
[ffmpeg] Adding metadata to 'the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3'
the_beatles_let_it_be.mp3 is ready
ytdlmusic --help to display help message
ytdlmusic --update to upgrade ytdlmusic
ytdlmusic --full-update to upgrade ytdlmusic, youtube-dl and youtube-search-python
ytdlmusic --version to display version of ytdlmusic and dependencies
You can use a script to loop in a csv file. ie:
#!/bin/bash
file_csv="./test.csv"
colonne_artiste=2
colonne_titre=1
sep=';'
i=1
while true
do
i=$((i+1))
line=$(sed $i'!d' $file_csv)
artiste=$(echo $line | cut -d $sep -f $colonne_artiste)
titre=$(echo $line | cut -d $sep -f $colonne_titre)
echo ""
echo ""
echo "********************"
echo $line
[ -z "$line" ] && echo "ligne vide : fin du script" && exit 0
ytdlmusic --auto "$artiste" "$titre"
echo "********************"
done
git clone https://github.com/thib1984/ytdlmusic.git
cd ytdlmusic
#work!
pip3 install . #to build
ytdlmusic "the beatles" "let it be" #to retest
- When i try to update youtube-dl with
youtube-dl -U, i obtain the following message in my debian/ubuntu
It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.
instead of
youtube-dl: error: youtube-dl's self-update mechanism is disabled on Debian.
Please update youtube-dl using apt(8).
See https://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl for the latest packaged version.
No panic : you have just downloaded a newer version of youtube-dl which is not in apt. When a new version of youtube-dl will be released in apt, you will download it automatically with sudo apt upgrade. If you want to retrieve the previous version, sudo apt remove youtube-dl && sudo apt install youtube-dl
- I would like a MP3 format but I only get an OGG format, why?
The ffmpeg package is required for the MP3 conversion. Install it and retry to launch ytdlmusic
- The commands indicated in this README don't work! Why?
The syntax of the commands can be change between versions, run ytdlmusic and read the help message.
- I get an error about
_requesthandler.py line 22when I try to use ytdlmusic
Sorry... You should update python to 3.6 version or more. youtube-search-python doesn't seems to be compatible with python 3.5 or less. from version 0.6.1, the ytdlmusic package checks the python version during the installation process.
- What are the compatibilities with Python, pip, youtube-dl and youtube-search-python?
When a new version of ytdlmusic is published, it is tested with the last versions of pip, youtube-dl and youtube-search-python. For Python, the last versions are tested in the branches 3.6 to 3.9. Each night, a job retest the actual package with last versions of dependencies and Pythons 3.6 to 3.9 and 3.10. These tests are executed with GitHub Actions on an Ubuntu 18.04 image.
This package use two very important dependencies :