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• Bash: bash script to download trimmed mp3 from youtube url

  23 February 2017, by Bhishan Poudel

  I would like to download the initially x seconds trimmed mp3 from a video url of youtube.
  I found that youtube-dl can download the video from youtube to local machine. But, when I looked at the man pages of youtube-dl, I could not find any trim options.

  So I tried to use the ffmpeg to trim downloaded mp3 file.
  Instead of doing this is two steps, I like to write one bash script which does the same thing.
  My attempt is given below.

  However, I was stuck at one place:
  "HOW TO GET THE VARIABLE NAME OF OUTPUT MP3 FILE FROM YOUTUBE-DL?"
  The script is given below:

  # trim initial x seconds of mp3 file
  
  # e.g. mytrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5RgCf1hrI 30
  
  function mytrim() {
  
      youtube-dl --extract-audio --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" $1
  
      ffmpeg -ss $2 -i $OUTPUT_MP3 -acodec copy -y temp.mp3
  
      mv temp.mp3 $OUTPUT_MP3
  
      }

  How to get the variable value $OUTPUT_MP3?
  echo "%(title)s.%(ext)s" gives the verbatim output, does not give the output filename.

  How could we make the script work?

  The help will be appreciated.

• Bash: bash script to download trimmed mp3 from youtube url

  25 August 2017, by Bhishan Poudel

  I would like to download the initially x seconds trimmed mp3 from a video url of youtube.
  I found that youtube-dl can download the video from youtube to local machine. But, when I looked at the man pages of youtube-dl, I could not find any trim options.

  So I tried to use the ffmpeg to trim downloaded mp3 file.
  Instead of doing this is two steps, I like to write one bash script which does the same thing.
  My attempt is given below.

  However, I was stuck at one place:
  "HOW TO GET THE VARIABLE NAME OF OUTPUT MP3 FILE FROM YOUTUBE-DL?"
  The script is given below:

  # trim initial x seconds of mp3 file
  
  # e.g. mytrim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD5RgCf1hrI 30
  
  function mytrim() {
  
      youtube-dl --extract-audio --embed-thumbnail --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" $1
  
      ffmpeg -ss $2 -i $OUTPUT_MP3 -acodec copy -y temp.mp3
  
      mv temp.mp3 $OUTPUT_MP3
  
      }

  How to get the variable value $OUTPUT_MP3?
  echo "%(title)s.%(ext)s" gives the verbatim output, does not give the output filename.

  How could we make the script work?

  The help will be appreciated.

• Python script and equivalent command do not run the same

  19 August 2021, by user32882

  I would like to use youtubedl to download the audio from a YouTube video into an mp3 file. I came up with the following command to do so:

  


  youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8DGbfOFig&ab_channel=derang

  


  When I run the above command through my command line, it seems that I successfully manage to download the file in mp3 format:

  


  [youtube] SF8DGbfOFig: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k]-SF8DGbfOFig.webm
[download] 100% of 5.57MiB in 00:03
[ffmpeg] Destination: Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k]-SF8DGbfOFig.mp3
Deleting original file Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k]-SF8DGbfOFig.webm (pass -k to keep)


  


  I then tried to convert the above command to an equivalent python script as follows:

  


  import youtube_dl
links = ["https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF8DGbfOFig&ab_channel=derang"]
ydl_args = {
        'audioformat': 'mp3',
        'outtmpl': '%(title)s.%(ext)s',
        'extractaudio': True
    }
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_args) as ydl:
    results = ydl.download(links)


  


  However, this does not succeed in generating an mp3 file of the audio. These are the logs I am getting:

  


  WARNING: Requested formats are incompatible for merge and will be merged into mkv.
[download] Destination: Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k].f135.mp4
[download] 100% of 4.42MiB in 00:02
[download] Destination: Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k].f251.webm
[download] 100% of 5.57MiB in 00:03
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k].mkv"
Deleting original file Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k].f135.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file Total Science & S.P.Y - Piano Funk (Ft. Riya & DāM FunK) [320k].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)


  


  What am I doing wrong here? Aren't my command and python script equivalent?