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.
go get -u github.com/schollz/getsong/...
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.
$ 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'
// download "True" by "Spandau Ballet"
fname, err := getsong.GetSong("True", "Spandau Ballet")
if err == nil {
fmt.Printf("Downloaded '%s'\n", fname)
}
Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to...
- Revise documentation
- Add new features
- Fix bugs
- Suggest improvements
MIT