gytmdl 2.1.1

A Python CLI app for downloading YouTube Music songs with tags from YouTube Music

Glomatico's YouTube Music Downloader

A Python CLI app for downloading YouTube Music songs with tags from YouTube Music.

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Why not just use yt-dlp directly?

While this project uses yt-dlp internally, it has the advantage of using YouTube Music's API to get the metadata for songs, which includes the proper high-resolution square cover, lyrics, track number, total tracks, etc.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8 or higher
• FFmpeg on your system PATH
  • Up to date binaries can be obtained from the links below:
    • Windows: https://github.com/AnimMouse/ffmpeg-stable-autobuild/releases
    • Linux: https://johnvansickle.com/ffmpeg/
• (Optional) The cookies file of your YouTube Music browser session in Netscape format
  • You can get your cookies by using one of the following extensions on your browser of choice at the YouTube Music website with your account signed in:
    • Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/export-cookies-txt
    • Chromium based browsers: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gdocmgbfkjnnpapoeobnolbbkoibbcif
  • With cookies, you can download age-restricted content, private playlists and songs in premium formats if you have an active subscription. You will have to set the cookies file path using the command line arguments or the config file (see Configuration).
  • YouTube cookies can expire very quickly. As a workaround, export your cookies in an incognito/anonymous window.

Installation

Install the package gytmdl using pip:

pip install gytmdl

Usage

gytmdl [OPTIONS] URLS...

Examples

• Download a song:

  gytmdl "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFTio5296w"
  

• Download an album:

  gytmdl "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lvpL_Gr_aVEq-LaivwJaSK5EbFd4HeamM"
  

• Choose which albums or singles to download from an artist:

  gytmdl "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCwZEU0wAwIyZb4x5G_KJp2w"
  

Songs that are not part of an album (standard YouTube videos) are not supported. To make sure you get valid links, use YouTube Music for searching and enable filtering by songs, albums or artists.

Interactive prompt controls

• Arrow keys - Move selection
• Space - Toggle selection
• Ctrl + A - Select all
• Enter - Confirm selection

Configuration

gytmdl can be configured by using the command line arguments or the config file.

The config file is created automatically when you run gytmdl for the first time at ~/.gytmdl/config.json on Linux and %USERPROFILE%\.gytmdl\config.json on Windows.

Config file values can be overridden using command line arguments.

Command line argument / Config file key	Description	Default value
--save-cover, -s / save_cover	Save cover as a separate file.	false
--overwrite / overwrite	Overwrite existing files.	false
--read-urls-as-txt, -r / -	Interpret URLs as paths to text files containing URLs separated by newlines.	false
--config-path / -	Path to config file.	<home>/.gytmdl/config.json
--log-level / log_level	Log level.	INFO
--no-exceptions / no_exceptions	Don't print exceptions.	false
--output-path, -o / output_path	Path to output directory.	./YouTube Music
--temp-path / temp_path	Path to temporary directory.	./temp
--cookies-path, -c / cookies_path	Path to .txt cookies file.	null
--ffmpeg-path / ffmpeg_path	Path to FFmpeg binary.	ffmpeg
--aria2c-path / aria2c_path	Path to aria2c binary.	aria2c
--download-mode / download_mode	Download mode.	ytdlp
--itag, -i / itag	Itag (audio codec/quality).	140
--cover-size / cover_size	Cover size.	1200
--cover-format / cover_format	Cover format.	jpg
--cover-quality / cover_quality	Cover JPEG quality.	94
--template-folder / template_folder	Template of the album folders as a format string.	{album_artist}/{album}
--template-file / template_file	Template of the song files as a format string.	{track:02d} {title}
--template-date / template_date	Date tag template.	%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ
--no-synced-lyrics / no_synced_lyrics	Don't save synced lyrics.	false
--synced-lyrics-only / synced_lyrics_only	Skip track download and only save synced lyrics.	false
--exclude-tags, -e / exclude_tags	Comma-separated tags to exclude.	null
--truncate / truncate	Maximum length of the file/folder names.	null
--no-config-file, -n / -	Don't load the config file.	false

Tag variables

The following variables can be used in the template folder/file and/or in the exclude_tags list:

• album
• album_artist
• artist
• cover
• date
• lyrics
• media_type
• rating
• title
• track
• track_total
• url

Itags (audio codec/quality)

The following free itags are available:

• 140 (AAC 128kbps)
• 139 (AAC 48kbps)
• 251 (Opus 128kbps)
• 250 (Opus 64kbps)
• 249 (Opus 48kbps)

The following premium itags are available if provided a cookies file with an active subscription:

• 141 (AAC 256kbps)
• 774 (Opus 256kbps)

Download modes

The following modes are available:

• ytdlp
• aria2c
  • Faster than ytdlp
  • Can be obtained from here: https://github.com/aria2/aria2/releases

Cover formats

The following cover formats are available:

• jpg
• png
• raw
  • This format gets the raw cover without any processing.
  • Note that when using this format, the cover image will not be embedded within the files. To address this, you can enable the save_cover option to save the cover as a separate file.