/soundcloud-dl

Soundcloud music downloader for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X written in BASH. (Private use only!)

Primary LanguageShell

Souncloud music downloader

Description

This shell script is able to download music from http://www.soundcloud.com. It should work with iOS, OS X, Linux.

System requirements

  • nix like OS with a proper shell
  • URL (Highly recommended) or wget
  • ools wich are preinstalled on linux (I don't know for OS X) : recode ; sed ; tail ; tr ; echo ; grep ; head ; cut ; sort ; uniq .

Install instruction for linux and required tools

  • Update the package list : sudo apt-get update
  • Install id3v2 sudo apt-get install id3v2
  • Install cURL sudo apt-get install curl

Instructions

  • apply executable permissions chmod +x ./scdl.sh
  • usage: scdl.sh [TRACK(S) URL] or soundcloud_new.sh [USER URL] or soundcloud_new.sh [SET(S)URL]

Features

  • Download all song of one user's page
  • Download all song of one song page
  • Download all song of one user's playlist page
  • Download all song of one user's list of playlist page
  • Set tags with id3v2 (skip the tag if id3v2 is not installed
  • The script stop when he see one song that have already been downloaded
  • You can use it as a sync script as i do with my Raspberry PI, each night it launch the script with my users profile and if new song as been added it download them and stop when it encounter a song that is already downloaded ;).

TODO

  • Clean the project, remove old scripts and keep one working instance
  • Improve instructions and README

More information

The script cannot handle letters like û cause to recode. But if i remove it instead of & you will have & (the html code of &) and as i think there is more & than û i prefer to let it...

License

GPL v2, orignal author Luka Pusic