Youtube to MP3 Downloader Script

youtube2mp3.py

#!/bin/env python
# Requires: youtube_dl module
# Requires: ffmpeg
# Usage:
#
# python youtube2mp3.py <URL>, ...
# 
# Example:
# 
# python youtube2mp3.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

import youtube_dl
import sys


ydl_opts = {
    'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'postprocessors': [{
        'key': 'FFmpegExtractAudio',
        'preferredcodec': 'mp3',
        'preferredquality': '192',
    }],
}


if __name__ == "__main__":
    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
        filenames = sys.argv[1:]
        ydl.download(filenames)

Works like a charm! Tks ;)

Fast and easy! Thanks.

Thank you for providing this script by this forum. it's really helpful to convert youtube video to mp3.

Rick Rolled, nice

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hi, when i run it, it does download webm file. wasn't it supposed to be mp3 because of 'preferredcodec': 'mp3'?

where should I put the FFmpeg encoder?