Download Songs From Youtube
Download songs from Youtube using Linux, Windows, or Mac.
Use at your own risk.
Tool: doc here
Follow the download instructions for Linux, Windows, or Mac.
$ pip install -U yt-dlp
To update use the same command:
$ pip install -U yt-dlp
Find the Youtube link to download. Say the link is awesome-link
. Then download:
$ yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --no-cache-dir "awesome-link"
If you want to download a playlist. Make a directory and download the files. Let’s say the playlist is awesome-playlist
:
$ mkdir playlist
$ cd playlist
$ yt-dlp -i -o '%(playlist_index)s.%(ext)s' -x
--audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --no-cache-dir "awesome-playlist"
The files will download like this:
01.mp3 03.mp3 05.mp3
02.mp3 04.mp3 06.mp3
If you want to merge the files into one big file. Use cat
to concatenate all mp3
files, then use ffmpeg
to correct the metadata. If you don’t fix this, the joined files will carry the time length of the first song, which will confuse the music player. Fixing this will add the times of all songs:
$ cat *.mp3 > big.mp3
$ ffmpeg -i big.mp3 big_fixed.mp3
Downloads are slow
Reinstall from the master branch:
$ pip install --force-reinstall https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/archive/master.tar.gz