Powershell Songs Download

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This is simple powershell utility to easily grab and download songs and playlists from popular websites.

It automatically inserts metadata to files and embeds cool squared album arts (if there are so and source file is one of the followings: .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .m4p, .m4v, .mp4, which is true in most cases).

Installation

Run the following command to install dependencies (you'll need the choco)

choco install youtube-dl ffmpeg imagemagick.app atomicparsley -y

Then install the powershell module itself

install-module -name pwsh-download-songs

Note that you probably won't be able to use the module because it's self-signed and considered untrusted. There're two options here:

1. Run

(get-module pwsh-download-songs).path

Then go to this path (for me it is C:\dev\projects\pwsh\pwsh-download-songs\pwsh-download-songs.psm1), open the properties of the pwsh-download-songs.psm1, click on "Digital signatures" tab and make the certificate trusted.

2. Or, to allow running untrusted powershell scripts and modules, for that change the execution policy by running

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Usage

To see the help from console, use the following command in powershell

get-help download-songs -full

Syntax

download-songs [-url] <String[]> [[-format] <String[]>] [-noPlaylist] [-saveThumbs] [-seeFormats] [<CommonParameters>]

Parameters description

-url <String[]> - the url to save songs from.

-format <String[]> - the requested format. Use -seeFormats parameter to check without downloading anything what formats are available. Passed to youtube-dl, so check its -f parameter and its doc. Defaults to "m4a/mp3/bestaudio".

-noPlaylist - whether to download only the song/video, if the URL refers to a song/video and a playlist. Defaults to $false. See youtube-dl --no-playlist param.

-saveThumbs - whether to save the song thumb image files after the download process. Defaults to $false.

-seeFormats - if true, the songs/videos won't be downloaded, but the command will output the available formats. Defaults to $false.

Examples

Download the single song Yxngxr1 - Falling 4 U in default .m4a format from the YouTube Music playlist

 download-songs -noPlaylist "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jCcGMtGRw5s&list=PLv5tSVP9eg2nkbqapepgxXYGCESsfLcu9"

Check all the available formats for the single song Psycho from the YouTube Music album Yxngxr1 - I Don't Suit Hats

download-songs -seeFormats -noPlaylist "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITW3pWaoWQ&list=OLAK5uy_mmO6QLOUTnk7GWFp_CVKH7B0gDgpGJI1A&index=2"

Download the whole playlist Yxngxr1 from YouTube Music (despite the url points on a track) and save all its thumbs

 download-songs -saveThumbs "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jCcGMtGRw5s&list=PLv5tSVP9eg2nkbqapepgxXYGCESsfLcu9"

Removal

Respectively

choco uninstall youtube-dl ffmpeg imagemagick.app atomicparsley -y

remove-module -name pwsh-download-songs

Related links

• pwsh-download-songs package
• youtube-dl github repo