Automate YouTube Video and MP3 Rips with Bash Shell Scripting

Discussion

1. Darkimmortal

   Youtube videos have awful audio quality though. Compared to 320kbps MP3 or FLAC anyway.
2. David Walsh

   Agreed, but they have a lot of stuff you wont find in other places (like live stuff).
3. Michael

   is not that illegal??
4. Magne Andersson

   I think you’ll look forward to the release of Spotify (http://www.spotify.com) in the US then ;) Although, that might take a while…
5. Urchin

   I wrote a script in PHP that would download videos from crunchyroll.com. It would download the video via an fget in a loop and then update a json-file on the server and a periodic ajax request would read the json-file and display download progress to the user. It was cool while it lasted.
• TFTP

  Where can I found ur scritp to DL from CR??
6. Ronny

   Spotify is great!
7. brainv

   nice one david, great bashing!
8. Stefan

   Ever heard of http://www.songza.fm ?
9. t0os

   it seems snippet for textmate doesn’t work correct..
10. Gareth Poole

    yip, you’re gonna love spotify.
11. nulll

    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
12. Daniel

    nice bashing. ;)
13. Richard Hoogstad

    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.
14. Ron

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

    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/
16. maja

    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? :-(
• Maxwell Chandler

  See the version I posted below
17. Anum Khan

    I like the way you explain everything but i just wanna know that how to make download page to download videos direct for Funops Videos.
18. Maxwell Chandler

    #!/bin/sh
    
    while read -r p; do    
    
    x=/tmp/.youtube-dl-$(date +%y.%m.%d_%H.%M.%S)-$RANDOM.flv
    
    youtube-dl --audio-quality 160k --output="$x" --format=18 "$p"
    
    SUBSTRING=$(echo "$p"| cut -c33-50)
    
    ffmpeg -i "$x" -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128k -vn -y "$SUBSTRING.mp3" </dev/null
    
    rm "$x"
    
    done <songs.txt
    
19. Maxwell Chandler

    The version above is just another way to do things, Awesome post btw.