A simple python program to download Music from various platfroms using yt-dlp ( The audio source is YouTube or YouTube Music ).

• Download Spotify playlists after exporting the playlist as a csv file from Exportify
• batch download music from a .txt file with URLs one by line, or using a custom CSV file with headers name,artist
• Direct download from a Youtube url, can be a video or playlist.
• Search then download a song using its name and artist name.
• Audio is downloaded as MP3, M4A, or FLAC.
• Song cover or thumbnail are always embedded, alongside numerous metadata.
• You can use a cookie file in case YouTube rate limits your session.
• Download using either YouTube music or Youtube.
• You can download from platforms other than Spotify if you convert your playlists as CSVs using services like tunemymusic.com .

• First make sure you have ffmpeg installed on your machine Download here.
• Make sure you have Python installed too, and is in your system path.
• If you dont have Git to clone the repo thats fine, you can download it as a zip file and uncompress it, see here.

• Clone this repository ( or just download it as a zip file and uncompress it ):

git clone https://github.com/MrElyazid/SpotFetch.git

• then :

cd SpotFetch

• Install requirements.txt ( preferably use a new virtual environement ):

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Thats it, now run menu.py :

python3 menu.py
# or python menu.py
# or py menu.py

It is recommended to use a virtual environement since installing requirements globally on your machine is generally bad, before running pip install -r requirements.txt make sure you create and then activate a venv, and if on Windows and running powershell you might need to run Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser before activating the venv.

Make sure the language set in Exportify is English.

First off, YouTube uses adaptive streaming, the best available quality for a video can change depending on variables like the server load, location ... etc, to get the best available quality at the time of the request, the argument bestaudio for yt-dlp ensures exactly that, and then comes the transcoding, when converting from the bestaudio format ( which is often opus or vorbis in WebM containers ) to mp3 or m4a the argument prefferedqyality: '0' is used, this ensures we dont produce a bloated transcode and perform VBR encoding instead of just setting the maximum bitrate which will just result in a large file size for the audio, note that for flac this last argument is ignored since the format is lossless.

in short : the best quality possible is always chosen.

Use the following extensions to get cookies for YouTube depending on your browser : Chrome, Firefox.

You can read more about using cookies with yt-dlp here

• YouTube Music (default): Works best for popular songs and if you don't want to download video clip audio.
• YouTube: Works best for niche and lesser-known songs and artists.

simply put each link in a line with no quotes, example :

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=zQ_s7NhWcPgEQ46b
https://youtu.be/6-8E4Nirh9s?si=e7LKPptaE6vEEI48
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=k-3y2LVF_SE&si=G2Dtl4LUbzjGIcpy

the headers are name,artist an example :

name,artist
"in the end","linkin park"
"under pressure","queen"
"time","pink floyd"

If you get ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden when trying to download, this is probably because yt-dlp needs to be updated, you can run pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade to update it.

Also if using a venv, make sure you activate it before each launch of the app.

since SpotFetch is just a python program, you can run it on any machine with python installed, you can run it on Android via Termux ( you can also find Termux on Google play ), after installation follow these commands :

• Upgrade your system packages :

pkg update && pkg upgrade

Make sure to type Enter whenever needed while upgrading.

• Install python, git, ffmpeg:

pkg install git python ffmpeg

• Clone this repo :

git clone https://github.com/MrElyazid/SpotFetch

• cd into the directory :

cd SpotFetch/

• install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Rotate your phone : do it so that the terminal UI doesnt look awful :/

• Run menu.py :

python menu.py

Thats it, after downloading try to locate where Termux stores files on your Android and access your downloaded files there.

If you have any enhancement ideas for the program or encountered a bug, you can submit an issue or a PR or start a discussion, happy to help!