spotify-playlist-downloader

A tool to download playlists from Spotify from YouTube

Requirements

• spotipy (pip3 install -U spotipy)
• youtube_dl (pip3 install -U youtube_dl)
• a client ID and client secret (from developer.spotify.com)

Usage

The GUI is yet to be implemented, until then you can run the program with python3 main.py --nogui

Command line options

Option	Help text	Implemented?
-ng, --nogui	Run the interactive command line interface instead of the GUI	Mostly
-sc, --script	Run the command without asking for input	Mostly
-id, --id	Specify the Spotify ID to be used	Yes
-s, --secret	Specify the Spotify secret to be used	Yes
-p, --playlist	Specify the playlist to download	Yes
-cd, --cleardata	Delete all saved data	Yes

Contributing

I don't expect anyone to contribute, but it's nice to have these resources that I used saved here.

Resources

youtube-dl

• https://codefather.tech/blog/youtube-search-python/
• https://dev.to/stokry/download-youtube-video-to-mp3-with-python-26p
• https://pypi.org/project/youtube_dl/

spotipy

• https://www.promptcloud.com/blog/extracting-songs-data-from-your-spotify-playlist-using-python/
• https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/

tkinter

• https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html
• https://coderslegacy.com/python/python-gui/

argparse

• https://docs.python.org/2/library/argparse.html