spotify-dlp

Command line downloader for spotify tracks, playlists, albums and top artists tracks. It works by taking the metadata out of these items using the Spotify API and searching them up on youtube. Then, it downloads the result by using yt-dlp.

 

Installation

1. After having installed Python 3 with pip, you can install spotify-dlp using the following command:

   pip install spotify-dlp

2. Then, login to Spotify developer console and click on "Create an App". Fill in details for name and description.

3. Make a note of Client ID and Client Secret. These values need to be then set to the SPOTIFY_DLP_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_DLP_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables respectively

   Alternatively, you can also include them in a .env file in the working directory, or even directly pass them as arguments.

   You can set environment variables by doing the following:

   Windows (run in cmd as administrator):

   setx SPOTIFY_DLP_CLIENT_ID "your_client_id"

   setx SPOTIFY_DLP_CLIENT_SECRET "your_client_secret"

   Linux (add to ~/.bashrc):

   export SPOTIFY_DLP_CLIENT_ID="your_client_id"
   export SPOTIFY_DLP_CLIENT_SECRET="your_client_secret"

4. You can now use the script by running spotify-dlp in the command line. Also, ffmpeg is required if you wish to convert the m4a codec to another one using the -c argument.

 

Arguments

Command	Example	Description
	"kon queso"	The words to search up or a link to a spotify album, artist, playlist or track.
-i --client-id	"qwertyuiop"	The Spotify Client ID*.
-s --client-secret	"asdfghjkl"	The Spotify Client Secret*.
-f --format	"{name} - {authors} ({album})"	The format of the downloaded tracks' names (--help to show available fields).
-t --type	"track"	When searching up a query, the specified type of content.
-o --output	"./album/"	The output path of the downloaded tracks.
-c --codec	"m4a"	The audio codec of the downloaded tracks.
-y --yes		Whether to skip the confirmation prompt.
-l --slice	"2:6"	The beginning and ending index of the list items to download separated by a colon ":" (1-based). Either one of those indexes can be omitted.
-v --verbose		Whether to display verbose information.
--help		Show the help message and exit.

*Required if not already found in the environment variables or in the working directory .env file.

 

Use Examples

spotify-dlp kon queso mf doom

spotify-dlp mm food -t album -o "%userprofile%\Desktop" -a mp3 -c

spotify-dlp https://open.spotify.com/album/1UcS2nqUhxrZjrBZ3tHk2N -i "your_client_id" -s "your_client_secret"

 

Screenshots

 

Changelog

This changelog only includes changes that are worth mentioning.

• 2.0.0:
  - Basically, everything changed. Also added package to PyPI.
  • 2.0.1:
    - Fixed --verbose argument not working.
    - Made youtube search more accurate.
    - Better error handling.