gytmdl 1.4

Download YouTube Music songs/albums/playlists with tags from YouTube Music

Glomatico's YouTube Music Downloader

Download YouTube Music songs/albums/playlists with tags from YouTube Music in 128kbps AAC/128kbps Opus/256kbps AAC and following the iTunes standard.

Setup

1. Install Python 3.8 or higher
2. Install gytmdl with pip

   pip install gytmdl
   

3. Add FFMPEG to your PATH. You can get it from here: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
   • If you are on Windows you can move the ffmpeg.exe file to the same folder that you will run the script instead of adding it to your PATH.
4. (optional) Get your cookies.txt
   • With cookies.txt, you can download age restricted tracks, private playlists and songs in 256kbps AAC using --itag 141 argument if you are a premium user. You can export your cookies by using the following Google Chrome extension on YouTube Music website with your account logged in: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gdocmgbfkjnnpapoeobnolbbkoibbcif. Make sure to export it as cookies.txt to the same folder that you will run the script.

Usage

usage: gytmdl [-h] [-u [URLS_TXT]] [-t TEMP_PATH] [-f FINAL_PATH] [-c COOKIES_LOCATION] [-i {141,251,140}] [-o]
                   [-s] [-e] [-v]
                   [<url> ...]

Download YouTube Music songs/albums/playlists with tags from YouTube Music

positional arguments:
  <url>                 YouTube Music song/album/playlist URL(s) (default: None)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u [URLS_TXT], --urls-txt [URLS_TXT]
                        Read URLs from a text file (default: None)
  -t TEMP_PATH, --temp-path TEMP_PATH
                        Temp path (default: temp)
  -f FINAL_PATH, --final-path FINAL_PATH
                        Final path (default: YouTube Music)
  -c COOKIES_LOCATION, --cookies-location COOKIES_LOCATION
                        Cookies location (default: cookies.txt)
  -i {141,251,140}, --itag {141,251,140}
                        itag (quality). Can be 141 (256kbps AAC, requires cookies), 251 (128kbps Opus) or 140 (128kbps
                        AAC) (default: 140)
  -o, --overwrite       Overwrite existing files (default: False)
  -s, --skip-cleanup    Skip cleanup (default: False)
  -e, --print-exceptions
                        Print exceptions (default: False)
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit