YouTube audio extract

A python script for Linux designed to make the process of downloading and extracting audio from large amounts of videos with yt-dlp easier.

The script can take a link to a video or playlist as input and pass the arguments to yt-dlp, as well as renaming the files afterwards to be the same as the video's title (Removing the video ID added automatically by yt-dlp). It can also take a file containing links to videos or playlists and pass each link to yt-dlp iteratively for efficient mass downloading.

Dependencies

• Python >3.10.0
• yt-dlp
• GCC (if installing as a binary)

Installation

Option 1: Install as an executable binary (requires GCC)

1. Clone this repository
   git clone https://github.com/AShadedBlobfish/yt-audio-extract

2. Navigate to folder
   cd yt-audio-extract

3. Run install script as root (root permissions are required to write to /usr/bin)
   sudo ./install.sh

Option 2: Run script outside of bin folder

1. Clone this repository
   git clone https://github.com/AShadedBlobfish/yt-audio-extract

2. Execute script using the following command
   python [path to yt-audio-extract directory]/yt-audio-extract.py