Download Youtube Music playlists, songs with their Album Arts and some metadata, with the help of ytmusicapi and youtube-dl.

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

Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to...

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

youtube_music_dl is available as an AppImage.

rm -rf ~/.local/bin/youtube-music-dl
wget https://github.com/srevinsaju/youtube-music-dl/releases/download/continuous/youtube_music_dl-x86_64.AppImage -O ~/.local/bin/youtube-music-dl
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/youtube-music-dl

youtube-music-dl --help

All dependencies are managed by poetry

git clone https://github.com/srevinsaju/youtube-music-dl
cd youtube-music-dl
poetry install
poetry run cli --help

To run, simply do

poetry run cli url_to_youtube_music_song_or_playlist

MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.