spotify-downloader README

The project's README from github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader. As one markdown file: README.md.

spotDL v4

spotDL finds songs from Spotify playlists on YouTube and downloads them - along with album art, lyrics and metadata.

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spotDL: The fastest, easiest and most accurate command-line music downloader.

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Installation

Refer to our Installation Guide for more details.

Other options
  • Prebuilt executable
  • On Termux
    • curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader/master/scripts/termux.sh | sh
  • Arch
  • Docker

    • Build image:

      docker build -t spotdl .

    • Launch container with spotDL parameters (see section below). You need to create mapped volume to access song files

      docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/music spotdl download [trackUrl]

    • For Docker Compose and permission-managed Docker downloads, see the Docker section in /docs/index.md.

    • Build from source

      git clone https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader && cd spotify-downloader
pip install uv
uv sync
uv run scripts/build.py

      An executable is created in spotify-downloader/dist/.

Installing FFmpeg

FFmpeg is required for spotDL. If using FFmpeg only for spotDL, you can simply install FFmpeg to your spotDL installation directory: spotdl --download-ffmpeg

We recommend the above option, but if you want to install FFmpeg system-wide, follow these instructions

Installing Deno

We strongly recommend installing Deno. spotDL uses yt-dlp for YouTube downloads, and some videos require Deno to download successfully. Without Deno, spotDL may fail to download some songs, including videos marked as "made for kids".

If using Deno only for spotDL, install Deno to your spotDL directory: spotdl --download-deno

If you want to install Deno system-wide instead, follow the official Deno installation guide.

Usage

Using SpotDL without options:

spotdl [urls]

You can run spotDL as a package if running it as a script doesn't work:

python -m spotdl [urls]

General usage:

spotdl [operation] [options] QUERY

There are different operations spotDL can perform. The default is download, which simply downloads the songs from YouTube and embeds metadata.

The query for spotDL is usually a list of Spotify URLs, but for some operations like sync, only a single link or file is required. For a list of all options use spotdl -h

Supported operations

  • save: Saves only the metadata from Spotify without downloading anything.

    • Usage: spotdl save [query] --save-file {filename}.spotdl

  • web: Starts a web interface instead of using the command line. However, it has limited features and only supports downloading individual songs.

  • url: Get user-friendly URL for each song from the query.

    • Usage: spotdl url [query]

  • sync: Updates directories. Compares the directory with the current state of the playlist. Newly added songs will be downloaded and removed songs will be deleted. No other songs will be downloaded and no other files will be deleted.

    • Usage: spotdl sync [query] --save-file {filename}.spotdl

      This creates a new sync file. To update the directory in the future, use:

      spotdl sync {filename}.spotdl

  • meta: Updates metadata for the provided song files.

Music Sourcing and Audio Quality

spotDL uses YouTube as a source for music downloads. This method is used to avoid any issues related to downloading music from Spotify.

Note Users are responsible for their actions and potential legal consequences. We do not support unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material and take no responsibility for user actions.

Audio Quality

spotDL downloads music from YouTube and is designed to always download the highest possible bitrate; which is 128 kbps for regular users and 256 kbps for YouTube Music premium users.

Check the Audio Formats page for more info.

Contributing

Interested in contributing? Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md to find resources around contributing along with a guide on how to set up a development environment.

Join our amazing community as a code contributor

License

This project is Licensed under the MIT License.

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这是什么东西？spotDL 是一个命令行音乐下载工具：把 Spotify 歌单、专辑或歌曲的链接交给它，它会在 YouTube 上找到对应的歌曲并下载，同时把专辑封面、歌词和元数据嵌入文件。
它是命令行工具，还是有应用程序？它是一个 CLI 工具——你用 Spotify 链接运行像 'spotdl download' 这样的命令。它也有网页模式（'spotdl web'），会打开一个浏览器界面，但功能有限，只能下载单曲。
除了 Python，运行它还需要什么？必须有 FFmpeg——用 'spotdl --download-ffmpeg' 可以把它安装到 spotDL 自己的目录里。另外强烈建议安装 Deno：没有它的话，某些 YouTube 视频（比如标记为'面向儿童'的视频）会下载失败。
下载到的音质怎么样？歌曲来自 YouTube，所以音质上限是普通账号 128 kbps，YouTube Music Premium 账号 256 kbps——spotDL 总是会抓取可用的最高码率。
为什么不直接从 Spotify 下载，而要从 YouTube 下载？直接从 Spotify 提取音频很麻烦，所以 spotDL 会把每首歌匹配到 YouTube 上的版本并从那里下载音频，然后再把 Spotify 的元数据、封面和歌词附加到文件上。
这样下载音乐合法吗？这要由用户自己负责：README 警告说你要对自己的行为以及可能产生的法律后果负责，而且该项目不支持未经授权下载受版权保护的内容。
除了单纯下载，它还能做什么？还有四种操作：'save' 只把歌单元数据保存到一个 .spotdl 文件里；'sync' 让某个文件夹与歌单保持一致（添加新歌、删除已移除的歌）；'url' 输出易读的歌曲链接；'meta' 刷新你已有文件的元数据。
What are similar projects?SpotiFlyer, cliamp, openspot-music-app, onthespot, SimpMusic, ISpotify, YoutubeDownloader, ytdlnis
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