Spotitube

A lightweight tool that uses Spotify and Youtube to downloads tracks from any Spotify playlist to the user's local Music folder as mp3 files.

A Short Description

spotitube is a command-line program to download mp3 files of tracks in user Spotify playlists. It is not platform specific, and will run on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It is released on public domain, so you can modify, redistribute, and use freely.

Prerequisites

youtube_dl >= 2017.7.23
$ sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

requests >= 2.11.0
$ pip install requests

spotipy >= 2.4.4
$ pip install spotipy

eyeD3 >= 0.8
$ pip install eyeD3

google_api_python_client >= 1.6.2
$ pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client

How to Use

Obtain Spotify Playlist URI

Go to your Spotify Playlist, right click, Share, copy URI:

Obtain Spotify Client & Client Secret Key

To access user and public playlists, Spotify requires you to use their API which gives you a unique Client Key and a Client Secret Key relevant only to YOUR Spotify account.

Login with your credentials here: https://developer.spotify.com/my-applications/#!/
Go to My Applications on the sidebar and create an app. Your application name/description does not matter.
Your Client ID and Client Secret Keys will be generated.

Command-Line

Using your keys and URI:

$ python spotify.py -c CLIENT -cs CLIENT_SECRET -u URI

Options

usage: spotify.py [-h] [-c CLIENT] [-cs CLIENT_SECRET] [-u URI]

required arguments:
  -c CLIENT, --client CLIENT                            Spotify client key
  -cs CLIENT_SECRET, --client-secret CLIENT_SECRET      Spotify client secret key
  -u URI, --uri URI                                     Spotify playlist URI

optional arguments:
  -h, --help                                            show this help message and exit
  -a AUDIO_QUALITY, --audio-quality AUDIO_QUALITY       Audio bitrate (128, 160, 192, 256*, 320 kbit/s)

Built With

Spotipy - Lightweight Python Spotify API
EyeD3 - Used to edit metadata with Python audio data toolkit (ID3 and MP3)
Youtube_dl - Used to download Youtube videos/audio
Google_api_python_client - Youtube API

Authors

Alex Kim - Original author

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