getsong

This is a simple library that utilizes the rylio/ytdl YouTube downloader and ffmpeg to get almost any m4a of a song that you want to listen to. I wrote this so I could download m4as of my favorite Spotify playlists.

Disclaimer: Downloading copyright songs may be illegal in your country. This tool is for educational purposes only and was created only to show how YouTubes's API can be used to download music. Please support the artists by buying their music.

Install

go get -u github.com/schollz/getsong/...

Usage

The aim of this library to have a low (or zero) false positive rate, so it works best when the entered title + artist are spelled correctly.

Use as a program

$ getsong 'Getting in Tune' 'The Who'
Downloading 'Getting in Tune by The Who (W6-3rnD7FSc).webm'...
 524289 / 524289 [==========================] 100.00% 
...converting to m4a...
Downloaded 'Getting in Tune by The Who (W6-3rnD7FSc).m4a'

Use as a library

// download "True" by "Spandau Ballet"
fname, err := getsong.GetSong("True", "Spandau Ballet")
if err == nil {
    fmt.Printf("Downloaded '%s'\n", fname)
}

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to...

• Revise documentation
• Add new features
• Fix bugs
• Suggest improvements

License

MIT