pymusicdl 1.1.0

Download spotify and youtube playlists without having to enter any API keys!

A simple music downloading app which doesn't require any API keys.

Check pymusicdl-termux for android setup.

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Features

• Download single song
• Download Youtube Playlist
• Download Spotify playlist/album (searches on youtube and downloads the top result)
• Convert downloaded songs to mp3 or flac

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The final result

Setup

Check it out on YouTube!

Installation and usage:

Windows

Note

Read the instructions carefully

• Make sure Python is added to your Path.
  • You can check it by typing py --version in cmd.
    • Consider running this piece of code (in cmd) for installing python (if you don't have python installed):

    curl -o python.exe https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.5/python-3.9.5-amd64.exe && python.exe
    

    make sure to check "add to PATH"
• Make sure PIP is added to your Path.
  • You can check it by typing pip --version or py -m pip --version in cmd.
    • Consider running this piece of code (in cmd) for installing pip (if you don't have PIP installed):

    curl -o get-pip.py https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && py get-pip.py
    

• Run the following command in Command prompt

curl -o setup.bat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/insaiyancvk/pymusicdl/main/setup.bat && setup && del setup.bat

• Everytime you want to download music just type musicdl in cmd :)

Linux

• Install the pymusicdl.

pip install pymusicdl
pip install https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy/archive/refs/heads/develop.zip

• Install FFMPEG based on the distro.

  • Debian/Ubuntu - sudo apt install ffmpeg
  • Fedora/RHEL - sudo dnf install ffmpeg
  • Arch - sudo pacman -S ffmpeg

  Referred from ubuntupit

• Download "musicdl" to ~/.local/bin, make it executable.

curl -o ~/.local/bin/musicdl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/insaiyancvk/pymusicdl/pure-python/musicdl && chmod +x ~/.local/bin/musicdl && clear && echo -e '\n\nType \033[1m\033[3mmusicdl\033[0m in your terminal to download music :)\n\n'

• Everytime you want to download music just type musicdl in terminal :)

Android

Check pymusicdl-termux for sample images

• Download Termux.

  DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT FROM PLAYSTORE, for more info check here

  • If you have Android version >=7, then click here to directly download termux apk
  • Otherwise, download F-Droid apk and install it. Then install Termux from it.

• Run the below command for installing everything automatically.

curl -sS -o setup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/insaiyancvk/pymusicdl/pymusicdl-termux/setup.sh && chmod +x setup.sh && ./setup.sh

• Everytime you want to download music just type musicdl in termux :)

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Updating the package:

pip install pymusicdl_termux -U

• or you can use python3 -m pip install pymusicdl -U in Termux

To fix the 'dislike_count' error:

• Uninstall pafy and install from github repository.

  (run the following command in command prompt)

  pip uninstall pafy && pip install git+https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy.git#egg=pafy

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Updating the package:

pip install pymusicdl -U

• or you can use python3 -m pip install pymusicdl -U if you are on linux

• and py -m pip install pymusicdl -U if you are on windows

Fun fact: I did this project when I got covid :)