Description
Bulk downloads your favorite Spotify playlists
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README
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spotDL
Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata
The fastest, easiest, and most accurate command-line music downloader
What spotDL does
- Downloads music from YouTube as an MP3 file
- Applies basic metadata gathered from Spotify such as:
- Track Name
- Track Number
- Album
- Album Cover
- Genre
- and more!
⚠ We have dropped the active development of spotDL v2 due to support and maintainability. No focused efforts will be made to resolve v2 specific issues.
Prerequisites
- Python 3.6 or above (added to PATH)
- FFmpeg 4.3 or above (added to PATH)
YouTube Music must be available in your country for spotDL to work. This is because we use YouTube Music to filter search results. You can check if YouTube Music is available in your country, by visiting YouTube Music.
Installation
Installing FFmpeg
- Windows Tutorial
- OSX -
brew install ffmpeg - Linux -
sudo snap install ffmpeg
Installing spotDL
- Recommended Stable Version:
pip install spotdl
- Dev Version: (NOT STABLE)
pip install https://codeload.github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/zip/dev
If you have trouble installing spotdl take a look at the extended installation guide here or ask for help in our discord server
On Termux
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/master/termux/setup_spotdl.sh | sh
Usage
- #### To download a song, run
spotdl [trackUrl]
example:
spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b?si=1stnMF5GSdClnIEARnJiiQ
- #### To download an album, run
spotdl [albumUrl]
example:
spotdl https://open.spotify.com/album/4yP0hdKOZPNshxUOjY0cZj?si=AssgQQrVTJqptFe7X92jNg
- #### To download a playlist, run
spotdl [playlistUrl]
example:
spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID?si=oGd5ctlyQ0qblj_bL6WWow
- #### To search for and download a song, run, with quotation marks
spotdl '[songQuery]'
example:
spotdl 'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights'
Note: This is not accurate and often causes errors.
- #### To resume a failed/incomplete download, run
spotdl [pathToTrackingFile]
example:
spotdl 'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights.spotdlTrackingFile'
Note:
.spotdlTrackingFiles are automatically created when a download starts and deleted on completion
- #### You can queue up multiple download tasks by separating the arguments with spaces
spotdl [songQuery1] [albumUrl] [songQuery2] ... (order does not matter)
example:
spotdl 'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights' https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID?si=oGd5ctlyQ0qblj_bL6WWow ...
Note: spotDL downloads up to 4 songs in parallel, so for a faster experience, download albums and playlist, rather than tracks.
pipx Isolated Environment Alternative
For users who are not familiar with pipx, it can be used to run scripts without
installing the spotDL package and all the dependencies globally with pip. (Effectively
skipping over the spotDL Installation step)
First, you will need to install pipx by running:
python3 -m pip install --user pipx
python3 -m pipx ensurepath
Next, you can jump directly to running spotDL with:
pipx run spotdl ...
Contributor Guide
Interested in contributing? Check out our [CONTRIBUTING.md](docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) to find resources around contributing along with a guide on how to set up a development environment.
Contributors
Authors
- @ritiek for creating and maintaining spotDL for 4 years
- @rocketinventor for figuring out YouTube Music querying
- @MikhailZex for, never mind...
License
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the spotDL README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.