spotDL

Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata

The fastest, easiest, and most accurate command-line music downloader

1. Downloads music from YouTube as an MP3 file
2. Applies basic metadata gathered from Spotify such as:
   • Track Name
   • Track Number
   • Album
   • Album Cover
   • Genre
   • and more!

spotDL is being redesigned! This means we are currently not accepting new feature requests. You can talk to us on our Discord if there is anything further.

• Python 3.6.1 or above (added to PATH)
• FFmpeg 4.2 or above (added to PATH)

YouTube Music must be available in your country for spotDL to work. This is because we use YouTube Music to filter search results. You can check if YouTube Music is available in your country, by visiting YouTube Music.

• Windows Tutorial
• OSX - brew install ffmpeg
• Linux - sudo apt install ffmpeg

• This version:

  git clone https://github.com/alpsayin/alpspotify-downloader.git
  pip install -e alpspotify-downloader

• To download a song, run

  spotdl [trackUrl]

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b

• To download an album, run

  spotdl [albumUrl]

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/album/4yP0hdKOZPNshxUOjY0cZj

• To download your user's saved tracks, run

  spotdl --user-auth saved

  example:

  spotdl --user-auth saved

• To download a playlist, run

  spotdl [playlistUrl]

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID

• To download all songs from an artist run

  spotdl [artistUrl]

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fZAAHNWdSM5gqbi9o5iEA

• To search for and download a song, run, with quotation marks

  spotdl '[songQuery]'

  example:

  spotdl 'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights'

  Note: This is not accurate and often causes errors.

• To resume a failed/incomplete download, run

  spotdl [pathToTrackingFile]

  example:

  spotdl 'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights.spotdlTrackingFile'

  Note: .spotdlTrackingFiles are automatically created when a download starts and deleted on completion

• You can queue up multiple download tasks by separating the arguments with spaces

  spotdl [songQuery1] [albumUrl] [songQuery2] ... (order does not matter)

  example:

  spotdl 'The Weeknd - Blinding Lights' https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID ...

  Note: spotDL downloads up to 4 songs in parallel, so for a faster experience, download albums and playlist, rather than tracks.

• To download youtube video with metadata from spotify run:

  spotdl "YouTubeURL|SpotifyURL"

  example:

  spotdl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7XnC1YpVo|https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3"

  Note: Urls have to be separated with | and quoted properly ex. "YouTubeURL|SpotifyUrl"

• To download songs with different output format run

  spotdl [songUrl] --output-format mp3/m4a/flac/opus/ogg/wav

  example:

  spotdl [songUrl] --output-format opus

• To use ffmpeg binary that is not on PATH run

  spotdl [songUrl] --ffmpeg path/to/your/ffmpeg.exe

  example:

  spotdl [songUrl] --ffmpeg C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe

• To generate .m3u file for each playlist run

  spotdl [playlistUrl] --m3u

  example:

    spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E8UXBoz02kGID --m3u

• To use youtube instead of youtube music run

  spotdl [songUrl] --use-youtube

  example:

    spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --use-youtube

• To change number of threads used when downloading songs run

  spotdl [songUrl] --dt [number]

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --dt 8

• To change number of threads used when searching for songs run

  spotdl [songUrl] --st [number]

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/4fzsfWzRhPawzqhX8Qt9F3 --st 8

• To ignore your ffmpeg version run

  spotdl [songUrl] --ignore-ffmpeg-version

• To use path template

  spotdl [songUrl] --path-template 'template'

  example:

  spotdl https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b --path-template '{artist}/{album}/{title} - {artist}.{ext}'

  possible values:

  • {artist}
  • {artists}
  • {title}
  • {album}
  • {ext}
  • {playlist}

Interested in contributing? Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md to find resources around contributing along with a guide on how to set up a development environment.

1. @ritiek for creating and maintaining spotDL for 4 years
2. @rocketinventor for figuring out YouTube Music querying
3. @MikhailZex for, never mind, truly, never mind...

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