Spodl

A tool which can be ran from the command line to download a Spotify playlist through Youtube, via youtube-dl.

Note: This is for educational purposes and I am not responsible for those who use the tool.

Installation

npm install -g spodl

What you need

1. Spotify client id and secret from here.

2. Spotify account name and playlist id. (Playlist id is the alphanumeric string following /playlist/)

3. Youtube API Key from here.

4. Youtube-dl installed on your machine from here.

Running

Set the environment variables.

export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID='your-spotify-client-id'
export SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET='your-spotify-client-secret'
export YOUTUBE_API_KEY='your_youtube_api_key'

After this you can then run spodl spotify_account_name spotify_playlist_id

For example:

spodl adam4543 7KLGqYIgcNeoWepuZ2sjXC

This will create a new directory using the playlist name and download all songs from the playlist into that directory.

If you would like to also download the music video, rather than just audio you can include video at the end of the command.

For example:

spodl adam4543 7KLGqYIgcNeoWepuZ2sjXC video

If video is not specified, only the audio will be downloaded.

Contributing

Pull requests are happily accepted so feel free to hack away.