openwhyd-pl-dl

A youtube-dl based script to backup your Openwhyd playlists.

Scripts

• openwhyd-pl-dl.sh <PROFILE_URL> downloads all the tracks of all playlists of an Openwhyd profile, as MP3 files.
• openwhyd-dl.sh <PLAYLIST_URL> downloads all the tracks of an Openwhyd playlist, as MP3 files.
• openwhyd-pl-dl-json.sh <PROFILE_URL> downloads the tracklists of all playlists of an Openwhyd profile, as JSON files.

Features

• Playlist and track order is maintained using numbered prefixes
• Failed downloads (e.g. deezer tracks, and deleted/broken links) are logged into a file

Dependencies

• youtube-dl, python program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites
• ffmpeg, to convert files to mp3 format, instead of m4a
• curl, command line tool for transferring data with URLs
• jq, lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

These scripts were successfully tested on Mac OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan) in August 2016. Some of them are also tested in a Linux-based Continuous Integration environment (see GitHub Actions).

Sample usage

./openwhyd-pl-dl.sh https://openwhyd.org/adrien