Download YouTube Music songs/albums/playlists with tags from YouTube Music in 256kbps AAC/128kbps Opus/128kbps AAC.
While this project uses yt-dlp under the hood, it has the advantage of utilizing YouTube Music's API to get songs metadata. This includes information such as track number, square cover, lyrics, year, etc.
- Install Python 3.8 or higher
- Install gytmdl with pip
pip install gytmdl - Add FFmpeg to PATH or specify the location using the command line arguments or the config file (see Configuration)
- (optional) Set a cookies file
- By setting a cookies file, you can download age restricted tracks, private playlists and songs in 256kbps AAC if you are a premium user. You can export your cookies to a file by using the following Google Chrome extension on YouTube Music website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gdocmgbfkjnnpapoeobnolbbkoibbcif.
Download a song:
gytmdl "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFTio5296w"
Download an album:
gytmdl "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lvpL_Gr_aVEq-LaivwJaSK5EbFd4HeamM"
gytmdl can be configured using the command line arguments or the config file. The config file is created automatically when you run gytmdl for the first time at ~/.gytmdl/config.json on Linux and %USERPROFILE%\.gytmdl\config.json on Windows. Config file values can be overridden using command line arguments.
| Command line argument / Config file key | Description | Default value |
|---|---|---|
-f, --final-path / final_path |
Path where the downloaded files will be saved. | ./YouTube Music |
-t, --temp-path / temp_path |
Path where the temporary files will be saved. | ./temp |
-c, --cookies-location / cookies_location |
Location of the cookies file. | null |
--ffmpeg-location / ffmpeg_location |
Location of the FFmpeg binary. | ffmpeg |
--config-location / - |
Location of the config file. | <home folder>/.gytmdl/config.json |
-i, --itag / itag |
Itag (audio quality). | 140 |
--cover-size / cover_size |
Size of the cover. [0<=x<=16383] | 1200 |
--cover-format / cover_format |
Format of the cover. | jpg |
--cover-quality / cover_quality |
JPEG quality of the cover. [1<=x<=100] | 94 |
--template-folder / template_folder |
Template of the album folders as a format string. | {album_artist}/{album} |
--template-file / template_file |
Template of the song files as a format string. | {track:02d} {title} |
-e, --exclude-tags / exclude_tags |
List of tags to exclude from file tagging separated by commas without spaces. | null |
--truncate / truncate |
Maximum length of the file/folder names. | 40 |
-l, --log-level / log_level |
Log level. | INFO |
-s, --save-cover / save_cover |
Save cover as a separate file. | false |
-o, --overwrite / overwrite |
Overwrite existing files. | false |
-p, --print-exceptions / print_exceptions |
Print exceptions. | false |
-u, --url-txt / - |
Read URLs as location of text files containing URLs. | false |
-n, --no-config-file / - |
Don't use the config file. | false |
The following itags are available:
141(256kbps AAC)140(128kbps AAC)251(128kbps Opus)
Can be either jpg or png.
The following variables can be used in the template folder/file and/or in the exclude_tags list:
albumalbum_artistartistcommentcoverlyricsmedia_typeratingrelease_daterelease_yeartitletracktrack_total