shadyvb / soundcloud-dl

Soundcloud music downloader for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X written in BASH. (Private use only!)

Souncloud music downloader

Description

This shell script is able to download music from http://www.soundcloud.com. It should work with OS X, any Linux OS.

System requirements

• Unix like OS with a proper shell
• Tools wich are preinstalled on linux (I don't know for OS X) : sed ; tail ; tr ; echo ; grep ; head ; cut ; sort ; uniq.

Required tools

• You will need eyeD3 ; curl ; recode
• The installer install all the required tools.

Instructions

• Download as ZIP ( check the button at the left of the page)
• Unzip
• You can use the auto installer : ./install (Support Debian/arch/MacOS X)
• Type scdl {URL}
• For help type scdl -h or scdl -help or scdl

Features

• Easy Installer
• Autodetect wich kind of Soundcloud's link it is
• Download all song of an user's page
• Download all song of a song page
• Download all song of an user's playlist page
• Download all song of an user's list of playlist page
• Download all song of a group page
• Download all song of an user's liked song
• Set tags with eyeD3 (skip the tag if eyeD3 is not installed)
• The script stop when he see one song that have already been downloaded
• You can use it as a sync script as i do with my Raspberry PI, each night it launch the script with my soudncloud and if new song has been reposted it download it and stop when it encounter a song that has already been downloaded.

More information

The script cannot handle letters like û cause to recode. But if i remove it, instead of & you will have & (the html code of &) and as i think there is more & than û i prefer to let it...

You can also check out this online tool: http://soundcloud-dl.com/.

License

GPL v2, orignal author Luka Pusic