youtube2mp3: A very simple system to download YouTube music videos and convert them to mp3 files

This is a very simple and short Bash script to provide a GUI for downloading YouTube music videos and convert them to MP3 files. I developed this for my personal use (and to help a few friends) and then thought it would be helpful to others, too. So here it is.

The script currently depends on zenity/kdialog, youtube-dl and ffmpeg. I have tested it on Ubuntu GNU/Linux machines.

How to Install

• Install packages (debian/ubuntu): aptitude install ffmpeg libav-tools youtube-dl zenity lame
• Install packages (archlinux): pacman -S ffmpeg youtube-dl zenity lame
• Run sudo ./install.sh

Alternatively you can simply make youtube2mp3.sh executable and then run:

./youtube2mp3.sh

on the command line (or create a shortcut to it for easier access).

Help

Usage: youtube2mp3.sh [args]
    Runs in interactive mode if no args are given
        (dialog boxes will prompt for input)
    Runs in non-interactive mode if any args are given

    args = --url="<url>" |
           --odir=<odir> |
           --rate=<rate> |
           --ffmpeg |
           --vkeep |
           --help

    args may be given in any order
      url must be given (enclose <url> in quotes)
      odir defaults to current directory
      rate defaults to 256
      --vkeep: keeps downloaded video file (default is to delete)
      --avconv: use avconv converter, not ffmpeg
      --help: emits this message

ScreenShot

Here's a screenshot :

Credits

Installation system and bitrate selection support has been added by PTKDev. See BashScript-YouTube2mp3 for more details.

Help system and downloaded video file support has been added by Joel Wittenberg joel.wittenberg@gmail

kdialog feature added by Fran Quinto.

Progress bar support for Zenity by Tomáš Hnyk (felagund).