I absolutely love music in every shape or form and YouTube is an endless source of new inspiration for me. Few months ago I wanted to transcribe some songs, but at that time I was travelling abroad and the internet connection wasn’t always available. Searching for a solution, I found this useful tool called youtube-dl.
YouTube-dl is awesome! After creating a list of files (video.txt) that I wanted to download I wrote a simple loop that iterates through the list and downloads each video.
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#!/bin/bash #author: Paolo Frigo, https://www.scriptinglibrary.com video_list="videos.txt" total=$(wc -l $video_list | awk '{ print $1 }') counter=0 help="Please, install it: 'sudo apt-get install youtube-dl' or 'brew install youtube-dl' for more info: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl" if command -v youtube-dl >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then echo "$(date) Download Started..." else echo "youtube-dl not found. $help" exit fi for video in $(cat $video_list); do counter=$(($counter + 1)) echo "[$counter/$total]: " $video youtube-dl -f 22 -o '%(title)s.%(ext)s' $video done echo "$(date) Download Finished!" |
You can find this source code on git. I hope you find it useful and if you have got any question don’t hesitate to contact me.