We do not support unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material and take no responsibility for user actions. Users are responsible for their actions and potential legal consequences. This method is used to avoid any issues related to downloading music from Spotify. SpotDL uses YouTube as a source for music downloads. Meta: Updates metadata for the provided song files. This create a new sync file, to update the directory in the future, use:

Save: Saves only the metadata from Spotify without downloading anything. 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.įor a list of all options use spotdl -h Supported operations The default is download, which simply downloads the songs from YouTube and embeds metadata.

There are different operations spotDL can perform. You can run spotDL as a package if running it as a script doesn't work: python -m spotdl

Linux - sudo apt install ffmpeg or use your distro's package manager.

We recommend the above option, but if you want to install FFmpeg system-wide, If using FFmpeg only for spotDL, you can simply install FFmpeg to your spotDL installation directory: Volume to access song files docker run -rm -v $( pwd ):/music spotdl download īuild from source git clone & cd spotify-downloaderĪn executable is created in spotify-downloader/dist/.įFmpeg is required for spotDL. Launch container with spotDL parameters (see section below).

There is an Arch User Repository (AUR) package for.

You can download the latest version from the.

On some systems you might have to change pip to pip3.

spotDL can be installed by running pip install spotdl.

Refer to our Installation Guide for more details. SpotDL: The fastest, easiest and most accurate command-line music downloader. SpotDL finds songs from Spotify playlists on YouTube and downloads them - along with album art, lyrics and metadata.

Spotify downloader