pytubemusic 0.3.1

A cli that may or may not download albums from a certain website

PyTubeMusic

A cli that may or may not download music from a certain website.

Install

pip install pytubemusic

Requires ffmpeg to be installed on your machine.

Installation Note

PyTubeMusic uses the PyTube library. This can occasionally break. However, patches are usually quickly released as new versions or as pull requests. Try upgrading to the latest version of PyTube if downloading fails.

Note, to pip install from a pull request do:

 pip install git+https://github.com/pytube/pytube.git@refs/pull/<PR_NUM>/head

Where <PR_NUM> is the number of the pull request.

Usage

PyTubeMusic track data is specified in TOML formats. TOML files have the following format:

type = "track | album"

cover = { url = "URL" }
#cover = { file = "Path" }

# For "track" type only
url = "..."  # URL to video
start = "..."  # start timestamp for track (optional - default 00:00)
end = "..."  # end timestamp for track (optional - default end of video)

[metadata]
album = "..."  # Required for "album" type
title = "..."  # required for "track" type
# Other FFMPEG metadata tags (unchecked)


# For album type only – array of track types
[[tracks]]
# Tracks data format specified below

Album tracks blocks

For albums, several different track blocks can be specified. These are:

• track - a single track from a video:

  [[tracks]]
  type = "track"
  url = "..."  # URL to video
  start = "..."  # start timestamp (optional - default 00:00)
  end = "..."  # end timestamp(optional - default end of video)
  
  [tracks.metadata]
  title = "..." # required for "track" type
  # Other FFMPEG metadata tags (unchecked)
  

• split - several tracks from a single video:

  [[tracks]]
  type = "split"
  url = "..."  # URL to video
  tracks = [
    { start = "...", end = "...", metadata = { title = "..." } },
  ]
  

  start and end timestamps in track list are optional - start defaults to 00:00 and end defaults to the start of the next track or the end of the video. The metadata title is required – other ffmpeg metadata tags can be added which will override album-wide metadata.
• merge - combines multiple videos into one track

  [[tracks]]
  type = "merge"
  tracks = [
    {url = "...", start = "...", end = "..."},
  ]
  [tracks.metadata]
  title = "..." # required
  # Other FFMPEG metadata tags (unchecked)
  

  start and end timestamps in track list are optional - start defaults to 00:00 and end defaults to the start of the next track or the end of the video.
• playlist - downloads a playlist - as either several tracks or combined into one.

  [[tracks]]
  type = "playlist"
  join = false  # whether to join videos into single track (optional, default false)
  tracks = [
    # include metadata only if join = false
    {start = "...", end = "...", drop = false, metadata = {title = "..."}},
  ]
  
  # include only if join is true
  [tracks.metadata]
  title = "..."
  

  Metadata needs to be included on tracks only if join is false, and for the overall track if join is true. The drop boolean on each track specifies whether that video should be ignored from the playlist videos. start and end timestamps are optional.

CLI

A pytubemusic command will be added upon installation. The help for the CLI is:

Usage: pytubemusic [OPTIONS] PATH

Arguments
 * path PATH Path to track/album toml file [required]

Options
 --out -o PATH The directory files will be written to [default: .]
 --help Show this message and exit.

Tracks are written to the cwd unless --out is specified, albums are written to a directory with the album name within the --out directory.