ytam 0.0.22

A commandline utility that enables the creation of albums from Youtube playlists.

ytam - YouTube Album Maker

A commandline utility that enables the creation of albums from Youtube playlists.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Installing

ytam depends on a specific patch of pytube, which is not yet incorporated into its official release. Until this happens, first install the patch using:

pip install git+git://github.com/nficano/pytube.git@0f32241c89192b22de9cfbfee1303a1bcee18bd3

Then:

pip install ytam

Usage:

ytam [-h] [-t TITLES] [-d DIRECTORY] [-s START] [-e END] [-A ALBUM]
               [-a ARTIST] [-i IMAGE]
               URL

positional arguments:
  URL                   the target URL of the playlist to download

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TITLES, --titles TITLES
                        a plain text file containing the desired names of the
                        songs in the playlist (each on a new line)
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        the download directory (defaults to 'music' - a
                        subdirectory of the current directory)
  -s START, --start START
                        from which position in the playlist to start
                        downloading
  -e END, --end END     position in the playlist of the last song to be
                        downloaded
  -A ALBUM, --album ALBUM
                        the name of the album that the songs in the playlist
                        belongs to (defaults to playlist title)
  -a ARTIST, --artist ARTIST
                        the name of the artist that performed the songs in the
                        playlist (defaults to Unknown)
  -i IMAGE, --image IMAGE
                        the path to the image to be used as the album cover
                        (defaults to using the thumbnail of the first video in
                        the playlist). Only works when -A flag is set 

Tests

TODO

Built With

• pytube - Lightweight Python library for downloading videos
• mutagen - For MP4 metadata tagging
• argparse - For parsing commandline arguments

Authors

• jayathungek - Initial work - jayathungek