README.md

spotify-playlist-downloader

Free Spotify playlist downloader, made using Python

Introduction

This is a tool which lets you download a Spotify playlist, without paying for Spotify Premium. Compared to other Spotify playlist downloaders, this version is much more lightweight, and small. main.py is where all the magic happens. The code lets you input a Spotify playlist link. The songs from the playlist are analyzed, and then we use pytube to search for the song from YouTube. The first result is then downloaded.

Setup/Installation

(All the installation commands assume you're using Bash. If you're using PowerShell, like a fricking muppet, replace python3 with py and you should recieve the same result)

• Install Python 3.x (Python 3.8 was used in development)
• Clone this repo
• Head over to your Spotify Developer Dashboard, and create a new app, and assign your Client ID and Client Secret in the .env file
• cd into the files and install the requirements:

cd spotify-playlist-downloader
pip install -r requirements.txt

IMPORTANT: Due to a bug (faulty regex) in one of the dependencies (pytube), songs won't download. To fix:

• in pytube's source, locate cipher.py
• replace the entries of function_patterns, with

  r'a\.[a-zA-Z]\s*&&\s*\([a-z]\s*=\s*a\.get\("n"\)\)\s*&&.*?\|\|\s*([a-z]+)',
  r'\([a-z]\s*=\s*([a-zA-Z0-9$]+)(\[\d+\])\([a-z]\)',

(solution found at pytube/pytube#1750)

You should now be able to run main.py and download your playlist for free

Demo

A demo playlist created to showcase the working of this program is shown here:

Running the main.py file, and entering the link for the demo playlist is shown here:

The main Python file then analyses the playlist, then starts downloading it. Progress of the downloading songs is shown here:

The downloaded songs are then saved in a directory, as shown here: