Youtube-MP3 Converter

Convert YouTube videos to MP3

Requirements

1. Download ytube file to your preferred location where you want MP3s downloaded
2. Install python if you don't have it already sudo apt-get install python
3. Install ffmpeg sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
4. Install youtube-dl sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl. See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

Usage

1. Make ytube executable chmod +x ytube
2. To convert individual videos, use ./ytube -v video_id,video_id (only use slugs not the whole URL. If URL is https://youtube.com/watch/v?=wxyz, you would copy wxyz e.g. ./ytube -v wxyz,abcde
3. To convert playlists use ./ytube -p playlist_id e.g. ./ytube -p PLgZEkAm-otxstxvlLzYxUmOStjt_C33DU

Potential additions

• Skip duplicates
• Error recovery
• Clean file naming

Other methods of downloading MP3 using youtube-dl only

Downloading single file

youtube-dl -i --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 YOUTUBE_VIDEO_LINK

Downling playlist

-i - ignore errors

-c - continue

--extract-audio - extract audio track

--audio-format mp3 - convert to mp3

--audio-quality 0 - the best audio quality

--yes-playlist - affirm that url points to a playlist

# Basic download
youtube-dl -ic -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_LINK

# Log successful downloads to text file
youtube-dl --download-archive downloads.txt --no-overwrites -ic  -o "%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --socket-timeout 5 YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_LINK

# -i option to ignore errors keep trying until success
while ! youtube-dl --download-archive downloaded.txt --no-overwrites -c -o "%(title)s-%(ext)s" --yes-playlist --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 --socket-timeout 5 YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_LINK; do echo DISCONNECTED; sleep 5; done

Disclaimer

This is tool is for educational use only. YouTube videos are copyrights of their owners and/or Youtube.com. This tool might be restricted to use in some countries.