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sidouglas/youtube-dl simple applescript gui

Created October 21, 2018 07:42
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Youtube DL wrapped in applescript for audio only downloads to desktop.
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youtube-dl simple applescript gui
set theResponse to display dialog "Enter youtube url" default answer "" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"
set theUrl to (text returned of theResponse)
set shellPath to "PATH=$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:~/opt/bin:~/opt/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:" & quoted form of (POSIX path of ((path to me as text) & "::")) & "; "
do shell script shellPath & "youtube-dl --ignore-errors -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o \"~/Desktop/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s\" " & theUrl
display dialog "Done" giving up after 2
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