= Youtube to MP3 Converter

The webserver needs to have python2.5 and ffmpeg installed, and be configured for Python CGI.

Add this to the apache2 config:

# allow Python CGI
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script py

# so the streams are easily savable with nice filenames
AliasMatch ^/yt2mp3/(.*)\.mp3$ /var/www/htdocs/tube2mp3.py

Copy these files into the above directory with the right permissions:

• tube2mp3.py: (cgi/python) youtube flv->mp3 converter

  given query parms 'video_id' and the corresponding 't', grabs the raw FLV from youtube, converts it to mp3 using ffmpeg, and dumps it back out as audio/mpeg. Minimal latency and no disk storage required (all done using python and pipes).

• annotube.py: (cgi/python) youtube query forwarder

  sends a query 'q' (prepending 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/') to youtube; for each in the result, goes back to youtube to get 't', and stores it as an attribute ('t' of course) on tag. Unfortunately, this script incurs no small amount of latency, and provides no feedback.

• style.css: (css) gives it that distinctive look.

• index.html: (ajax) to send a query through annotube and create some links to .mp3s, that the AliasMatch rule above sends to tube2mp3.py to convert from flv gotten from youtube.

Share and enjoy!