Comments on: Automate YouTube Video and MP3 Rips with Bash Shell Scripting

By: maja

maja — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:36:49 +0000

doing what you described here worked great: http://davidwalsh.name/youtube-ffmpeg-mp3-conversion
but the bashscript doesn’t work for me. i start youtube-dl without the ‘.py’ (its installed), so i deleted these signs, but if i execute the shell-script nothing happens (and yes i did make it executable). any ideas? :-(

By: Rafael Soares

Rafael Soares — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:00:52 +0000

There’s a new script for linux to search and watch youtube’s video on linux shell, called YouShell.

http://code.google.com/p/youshell/

By: TFTP

TFTP — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:43:00 +0000

Where can I found ur scritp to DL from CR??

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:20:48 +0000

great.. entering KICK before the url also works ;)
(so you get kickyoutube..) easy way to quickly get any format

By: Richard Hoogstad

Richard Hoogstad — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:35:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing this works great just had to make some minor changes to make it work under Linux.

Just one note, all the mp3s that got converted had a bitrate of 64kBit/s which sounded horrible.

For a better quality I changed:
“ffmpeg -b 192k -i $newfile ${newfile/flv/mp3}”

to:
“ffmpeg -i $newfile -ab 128k ${newfile/flv/mp3}”

the “-b” argument is for videos where “-ab” is for audio hope that was usefull.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:16:55 +0000

nice bashing. ;)

By: nulll

nulll — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:38:33 +0000

Hi, I had problems with the bash script that was always returning “Bad substitution”
After googling around i solved the problem changing the leading
#!/bin/sh
in
#!/bin/bash

By: Gareth Poole

Gareth Poole — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:01:57 +0000

yip, you’re gonna love spotify.

By: t0os

t0os — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:16:08 +0000

it seems snippet for textmate doesn’t work correct..

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:40:57 +0000

Ever heard of http://www.songza.fm ?