This tool uses yt-dlp and ffmpeg to easily download a Youtube audio in WAV format.
You'll need:
- Python
- ffmpeg
- yt-dlp module
- ffmpeg-python module
On Linux you can download python and ffmpeg from your package manager.
On Windows:
You should also add ffmpeg to the PATH. Here is a guide
For the modules you can install both via pip (both OS):
pip install yt-dlp
pip install ffmpeg-python
To download the program, clone it in the directory that you want:
git clone https://github.com/jschuhmann47/youtubeToWav.git
Open your terminal and navigate to the location of the script. Then write
python youtubetowav.py
and the program will start.
You'll be asked to insert a Youtube link. Paste it and press enter. The program will download and convert the video to .m4a and then to .wav. The .wav will be in the same folder with the filename being the title of the video plus its ID.
For example, this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO4vI8P88NM
will output Thriller [sO4vI8P88NM].wav
Optionally you can pass the URL directly as a main argument.
For example:
python youtubetowav.py https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDk1RA4g8CA