ytmdl
A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc. (by deepjyoti30)
SponsorBlock
Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension) (by ajayyy)
| ytmdl | SponsorBlock | |
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| 58 | 904 | |
| 3,049 | 8,774 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.7 | 9.3 | |
| 19 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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ytmdl
Posts with mentions or reviews of ytmdl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-19.
- ytmdl - Download songs from YouTube with metadata. v0.3.4 released with youtube as fallback for meta, output directory customizations and other fixes.
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Spotify Rip Software?
This one's not perfect, but it rips songs from YouTube or things like that and gets the Metadata so you can upload it to iTunes to your iPod and what not https://ytmdl.deepjyoti30.dev/
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Spotify Downloader showcase(more info in comments)
https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl did this first, and did it best, the rest of the projects doing it add precisely nothing.
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How to use YT-DL to download whole playlists?
I don't know what your current OS is or familiarity with command line is like, but this is pretty handy for what you want to do: ytmdl
- Fork ytmdl for Metadata retriever. ytmdl searches song and downloads from YouTube and gets metadata from iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
- I am trying to embed album_artist and album into metadata - Help needed
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Yt-dlp - A few questions about Sound quality,Thumbnails and Output Templates (Music Playlist)
Any suggestions? for now when I want to download single tracks I use a spotdl fork and I have looked at ytmdl which I believe have support for Spotify metada, but other than that, having seen anything that can integrate with yt-dlp and not replace it.
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Program to view metadata from Spotify, iTunes?
This program downloads then extracts metadata from iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl
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Take an m3u of mp3's and download the official YouTube videos
https://github.com/deepjyoti30/ytmdl kind of does it but it grabs the mp3 not the video. I might have it pull the official video URL and dump those to a file then grab those.
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YouTube downloader to mp3 which includes thumbnails?
you can download youtube songs in mp3 not only with thumbnail but also metadata with ytmdl (artist name, album, etc) (web app) (command line)
SponsorBlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of SponsorBlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
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Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos
just use sponsorblock today, works fine on all my devices. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
from mobile phone to tv to pc.
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000.
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
And if you have android:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- The Self Balancing Monorail [video]
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YouTube strikes again, it seems
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.
[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/
- Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities
For integrated ads on YouTube (sponsor messages), you can use the SponsorBlock extension (https://sponsor.ajay.app/). If you're using Android, you can also get NewPipe with SponsorBlock integration.
- Adblocker
- Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users
- What are your top browser extensions that have become absolute game-changers?
- Are there any UBlock settings to skip "self promotion" inside youtube videos or does i have to use a separate extension?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ytmdl and SponsorBlock you can also consider the following projects:
spotify-downloader - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
youtube-dl-gui - A cross platform front-end GUI of the popular youtube-dl written in wxPython.
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
SpotiFlyer - Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader, Supports Spotify / Gaana / Youtube Music / Jio Saavn / SoundCloud.
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
deezer-downloader - Download music from Deezer with a nice front end
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
savify - Download Spotify songs to mp3 with full metadata and cover art!