getsong

A Python program which uses BeautifulSoup and Youtube-dl to download a song from youtube

The result will be stored in the current working directory.

Usage

usage: getsong [-h] [-y] [-m] [-p] [-u] [-q] [-i ID] [--artist ARTIST]
               [--title TITLE] [--album ALBUM]
               term

positional arguments:
  term              Youtube search term

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -y, --yes         Skip prompt
  -m, --musicvideo  Get first result for <term>, not '<term> lyrics'
  -p, --print-path  Prints path to file to stdout, so you can pipe it to a
                    command or play the file or something
  -u, --print-url   Prints URL to stdout without downloading the audio track
  -q, --quiet       Hides youtube-dl output. Still shows y/n prompt if not
                    hidden by -y
  -i ID, --id ID    Skip search, lookup ID. Use "" for the search term instead
  --artist ARTIST   Uses Mutagen to write the artist information to the output
                    file
  --title TITLE     Uses Mutagen to write the title information to the output
                    file
  --album ALBUM     Uses Mutagen to write the album information to the output
                    file

Track numbering currently unsupported by mutagen

Installation

Via pip:

pip3 install getsong

Alternatively:

• Clone the repository, cd getsong
• Run python3 setup.py install or pip3 install -e
• ffmpeg (or avconv) is suggested to fix the container on the downloaded audio.