Autube

Download youtube songs fast and easy. It works as high-level interface of the pafy package: https://github.com/mps-youtube/pafy

Requirements

• python 3
• youtube-dl
• pafy
• unicodedecode
• pydub
• ffmpeg

Downloading local lists of songs

• 1 Create a local .txt file with the url songs, i.e:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqHoAEJBuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfoScCnjRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zDdr9FOyM

• 2 Download them with the downloadLocalPlaylist(urls_path,...) method

Downloading online existent playlists

• 1 Get the url of a youtube playlist, i.e:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrBpewHG-wI&list=PLmDTvnzs8qB22Sjh1E2MJq2VCxuit-JNn

• 2 Download them with the downloadPlayList(playlist_url,...) method

Features

• Download individual songs in single/batch mode
• Download playlists
• Convert downloaded songs to .mp3
• Parallel downloads and conversions (the author encourages a responsible use of this functionality)

Youtube songs to phone fast and ez:

The way I use this is very confortable and fast:

• I have a music.txt file in a place where I have fast access to.
• Whenever I find a nice song I just look it up in youtube and paste add its link to the music.txt file (you can put various, one below the other).
• I have the autube.bat file content with just the execution of the python file how_to_use.py (so it has to point to wherever it resides).
• The file how_to_use.py should be configured in such way that it will download the songs of the file music.txt. By default it has the configuration for my system and folder structure, just change it to yours.
• Then I add the repository folder (or wherever autube.bat resides) to the PATH in the environment variables, so that you can easily execute it from the command line without having to navigate folders. Once autube.bat is executed, the program will start downloading the songs of music.txt to the specified folder.
• In my case, this specified folder is my Dropbox folder, so the songs are automatically uploaded to the cloud.
• In my phone I have installed the app Dropsync, so once the files are in the cloud, I run the app from my phone and the songs will be downloaded to my phone (to a folder that you decide when you configure Dropsync).
• The idea is that you have in your phone a Music app that reads music files from that same folder

Kown issues

youtube-dl sometimes complain. When this happens just reinstall it. If it still doesn't work uninstall pafy as well, then reinstall youtube-dl and then install pafy again.