yt2mp3

YouTube to MP3

A simple YouTube downloader, utilizing:

• yt-dlp
• ffmpeg
• ffprobe

Usage (Windows)

Extract the yt2mp3.zip file, and run yt2mp3.bat.

Insert your URL, and then wait for yt-dlp to download your video of choice and convert it to MP3. yt2mp3 will also pull the metadata and thumbnail of the video you choose, and embed these within the mp3 file for you automatically.

Then just check your user profile's music folder (C:\Users(user account name)\Music) and your MP3 file will be there waiting for you. Then you can use it for whatever purpose you may need it for.

To download another video, simply just open up the application again and it will be ready to accept input.

Usage (macOS)

NOTE: As of now, the macOS build requires knowledge of basic terminal usage. Proceed at your own discresion.

Extract yt2mp3_macos.zip, then open Terminal and change your directory to the folder you extracted yt2mp3 to.

Inside of your terminal window, type ./yt2mp3.sh and press enter.

Insert your URL, and then wait for yt-dlp to download your video of choice and convert it to MP3. yt2mp3 will also pull the metadata and thumbnail of the video you choose, and embed these within the mp3 file for you automatically.

Then just check your user profile's music folder (/Users/(user account name)/Music) and your MP3 file will be there waiting for you. Then you can use it for whatever purpose you may need it for.

To download another video, simply just open up the application again and it will be ready to accept input.

Troubleshooting

I put in my URL, but it's giving an error about list and index?

Make sure the URL you inserted is not from a playlist, URLs that are in a playlist break yt2mp3. If your song is in a playlist, you can safely remove the rest of the link up to just before &list= in the YouTube URL and then you can download the individual songs.

I put in my URL, but nothing appeared in my Music folder.

Restart the application, and try again. If it still isn't working, open an issue here on the GitHub page and I will try to help you out as much as possible

Windows has detected the files as malware, are they safe?

yt2mp3.bat has been written by myself, and can be opened in your favourite text editor to verify that there is no malicious code inside. FFmpeg, FFprobe, FFplay and yt-dlp have all been sourced from virus-free sites and ran through VirusTotal too.

My macOS terminal has given the message `zsh: permission denied: ./yt2mp3.sh`

Your copy of yt2mp3 has not had it's permissions correctly setup, to fix this simply change your terminal directory to the location of yt2mp3.sh and then run chmod +x yt2mp3.sh to assign the executable permissions to the file.