pl2mp3

👀 Watches Youtube Playlists and automatically downloads & converts them to mp3

pl2mp3 will watch multiple YT playlists to download newly added videos and convert them to MP3. Ideal for music or podcast playlists.

Install pl2mp3:

npm install -g pl2mp3

Usage:

Usage
  $ pl2mp3 <Download Directory>

Options
  --init, -i  create a new download Directory
  --update <mins>, -u <min>   check for playlist updates every <min> mins. Default 10min
  --reset, -r resets database, removes downloaded videos

Examples
  $ pl2mp3 --init <Download Directory> // to create a new download Directory
  $ pl2mp3 <Download Directory> // to start watching for new videos
  $ pl2mp3 --update 20 <Download Directory> // to watch every 20min for changes.

Setup:

Setup Download folder:

• In order to use pl2mp3, you first have to create a download Directory. This Directory will be used by pl2mp3 to download and convert new videos. Run the following command to create a new download Directory

pl2mp3 --init <Directory name>

• This will create a new directory with a db.json file and a config.json file.

Setup config.json:

• After running the --init command, pl2mp3 created a config.json file. The config.json file is used to specify the playlists you want to download and other options.
• When adding new playlists to the config.json, make sure that the Youtube playlists are public.

Sample config:

• The following config will download and watch two Playlists.

{
  "playlists": [
      {
          "link": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpHPxe91z9NEwLMsxfmAehlZnoTzRFB8"
      },
      {
          "link": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpHPxe91z9OsVABLuXljh78LwiP8ToXq"
      }
  ]
}

Split option:

• You can add the following option to split mp3s into smaller clips

{
  "playlists": [
      {
          "link": "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfpHPxe91z9NEwLMsxfmAehlZnoTzRFB8",
          "split":true,
          "split-duration":"03:00"
      }
  ]
}

*This will split every mp3 file into 3 min clips, with proper names.

Start pl2mp3:

• After creating a Download Directory and customizing the config.json you can start pl2mp3 with the following command:

pl2mp3 <Directory name>

• pl2mp3 will create a separate folder for each playlist and will start downloading and converting all videos inside the playlists.
• After that pl2mp3 will look every 10 min for newly added videos to download them too. You can change the time by using the --update <min> flag.

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