README

Grab file from YouTube with the highest audio quality and convert them automatically to .mp3 files.

Motivation

YouTube is playing so many ads before any music video nowadays, that it became unbearable. Especially when I hit my PR in bench press and then suddenly in the middle of a very hard rep I'm getting annoying and loud ad, which could pose a severe risk to my life with 130kg over my head.

How to use

This software is created using node.js and TypeScript. Before you can run, you must compile.

Simply run:

• npm install
• npm run build
• npm start https://youtube_video_url [seconds to skip: number]

Seconds to skip is an optional parameter allowing you to skip number of seconds from the beginning of the video.

How files are being processed

youtube-audio-grabber downloads stream with the highest audio bitrate from YouTube and then converts them to .mp3 file using ffmpeg.

Optional second argument allows you to skip number of seconds counting from the stream start. Some music videos include long and boring intros, that's where this option comes handy.

Files are grabbed, converted and stored in the './data' folder. To change that, export env variable YOUTUBE_AUDIO_GRABBER_OUTDIR where you specify your default output folder.

ffmpeg is being used to do the conversion, this application attempts to install it's own version and will use it by default, however, if you wish to use your own system-installed version of ffmpeg you can define an absolute path to it by exporting the environment variable FFMPEG_PATH.

Happy grabbing! :)