Download youtube videos and convert them to mp3.

To install ytb_downloader by running:

$ pip install ytb_downloader

You can use the command line tool from ytb_downloader to download audios or videos from Youtube.

Start downloading a single audio by calling:

$ ytb_downloader "<your youtube video url>"

If you want to specify the format of the downloaded video, you can use the option --format or -f with the format as string, such as:

$ ytb_downloader --format "mp3" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOubjLM9Cbc"

For more details, please execute:

$ ytb_downloader --help

Start downloading a single video by calling:

$ ytb_downloader --video-only "<your youtube video url>"

If you want to download audios in bulk, please prepare a csv file containing all the urls of the audios. Here is an example about how does this csv file look like.

Here is the content of the example-url-only.csv file:

url
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkjYKUXERQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOubjLM9Cbc

In the csv file, you can also specify the format, time_start, time_end and bitrate for each audio, such as

Here is the content of the example.csv file:

url,format,time_start,time_end,fps,bitrate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqkjYKUXERQ,mp3,0,,44100,3000k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOubjLM9Cbc,mp3,3,100,200,500k

To download all the audios from the urls listed in this file by calling:

$ ytb_downloader_bulk example.csv

If you want to download the videos only, you need to provide a csv file with one column url, and list all the urls you want to download in that column. Then execute:

$ ytb_downloader_bulk --video-only example.csv

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