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Frederick Reynolds
Frederick Reynolds

Reputation: 666

How can I use spotDL inside python?

I know that spotDL is a command-line application built in python, but is there any way to use it inside a script?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5647

Answers (4)

Utkarsh Shende
Utkarsh Shende

Reputation: 1

import spotdl
from spotdl import Spotdl

obj = Spotdl(client_id="-", client_secret="", no_cache=True)
song_objs = obj.search(["song link"])
print(song_objs)
obj.download_songs(song_objs)

Upvotes: 0

user15382536
user15382536

Reputation:

Actually spotDL has got an API and here's the DOCS.

That's a basic example on what can you do based from one of the given examples.

from spotdl.command_line.core import Spotdl

args = {
    "no_encode": True,
}

with Spotdl(args) as spotdl_handler:
    spotdl_handler.download_track("https://open.spotify.com/track/2lfPecqFbH8X4lHSpTxt8l")
    print("Downloading 2nd track.")
    spotdl_handler.download_track("ncs spectre")
    print("Downloading from file.")
    spotdl_handler.download_tracks_from_file("file_full_of_tracks.txt")

The examples and links are for v2 of spotDL, using v3 (the common one you install with PyPI) will not contain these features.

You can download v2 from here.

Upvotes: 1

Frederick Reynolds
Frederick Reynolds

Reputation: 666

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: Yes

You see, spotDL is a command-line application, and requires the use of command-line arguments. In python, there isn't a way (as of I know) to set these arguments.

I believe you are asking on how to use an import and use a function directly such as spotdl.download(spotifylink), however, the application is only designed for command-line use. So lets do that then!

How?

Well, we can use the subprocess module to launch up spotdl via the python executable.

import subprocess
import sys # for sys.executable (The file path of the currently using python)
from spotdl import __main__ as spotdl # To get the location of spotdl

spotifylink = "Whatever you want to download"
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, spotdl.__file__, spotifylink])

Edit: There is a better way to do it (Requires pytube)

from spotdl import __main__ as start # To initialize
from spotdl.search.songObj import SongObj
from pytube import YouTube

spotifylink = "Whatever you want to download"
song = SongObj.from_url(spotifylink)
url = song.get_youtube_link() # Yay you have a youtube link!
yt = YouTube(url)
yts = yt.steams.get_audio_only()
fname = yts.download()

print(f"Downloaded to {fname}")

Upvotes: 1

turtleship69
turtleship69

Reputation: 11

You could use os.popen like this:

import os
os.popen("spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M")

Or os.system:

os.system("spotdl https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M")

Upvotes: 1

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