a script that allows you to download spotify songs or playlists , written in python

This README would normally document whatever steps are necessary to get spotify-dl up and running.

• spotify-dl allows you to download spotify songs or playlist
• Version 0.0.2
• This repo contains spotify-dl source code

to use spotify-dl , you need to install thoses packages :

• bs4
• youtube-dl

you can use brew to install youtube-dl :

$ brew install youtube-dl

and pip to install bs4

$ pip install beautifulsoup4

use apt-get install to install youtube-dl

$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

and pip to install bs4

$ pip install beautifulsoup4

you can either use your spotify account or downloading single track or playlist by providing an ID , ex:

$ ./spotify-dl --track {spotify_song_id} --dl youtube

this will download the track and save it as mp3 format

you can get the song ID by getting the spotify URI of the song

{spotify_song_id_ex} : 28Ct4qwkQXY2W5yyNCLuVI

The new version of the spotify api require an access_token for requests, you can check out https://developer.spotify.com/migration-guide-for-unauthenticated-web-api-calls/.

the new patch of spotify-dl have a new argument called: --access_token , so the new usage of spotify-dl would be:

$ ./spotify-dl --track {spotify_song_id} --dl youtube --access_token <your_access_token>

you can get the access token from the url generated while executing :

$ ./spotify-dl --gen_url 

you also have to create an application on https://developer.spotify.com/

change:

CLIENT_ID=""
CALL_BACK_URL=""

• Hamza Bourrahim