Spotify song downloader using python

Everyone in the world loves to listen to songs. Spotify is an online music streaming application through which you can able to listen to almost all the songs. But here the drawback is when the song plays online it will buffer while playing. Also, most of us want the songs to play in offline mode.

But it is a difficult task to download the songs by searching manually, wherein Spotify you can create a playlist and save all your songs so that you can listen to it wherever you want. Also, Spotify will not allow you to download the songs. What if I say you can able to download the songs from Spotify with the help of python.

Yes, using python you can download the songs from Spotify. This python project will teach you how to download songs from Spotify using python.

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Following are the steps followed to download songs from Spotify:

• Download and install python latest version
• Install spot-dl packages with the help of pip
• Copy-paste the song or playlist link to download

How does it work?

When you paste the link of a particular song it searches for the same song on youtube, downloads it and converts the song to mp3 format. The advantage here is the song is downloaded along with the same album art in the Spotify.

Similarly, For a playlist when you paste the link it will create a .txt file with all the links of the song available on the playlist, then using that links all the songs are downloaded and converted.

Project Implementation

First, download and install the latest version of python and the next step is to download the spot-dl repository from Github.

Download the spot-dl package from the git and install the package using command prompt. Open cmd, type cd and paste the file location of the spod-dl package.

For example,

Then press enter

Now type

This will install the Spotify music downloader package and now it is ready to use.

As I previously mentioned, you can download the songs in two ways: one is downloading an individual song and the other is downloading a playlist altogether.

First to download an individual song type the following command and paste the song link -

This command will download the song and saves it in the default Music folder.

To convert the song to mp3 format your computer should be installed with FFmpeg. If FFmpeg is not installed in your computer, your song will be saved in .m4a format.

To download the entire playlist, you need to type the following command followed by the playlist link - 

After this command, all the song links in the playlist will be saved in a .txt file and you need to recall the list to download all the songs. With the following command -

This a very simple and fun way to download the songs from Spotify with the help of python. If you have any other method to download a song from python let us know in the comment section.

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Spotify song downloader using python