/sample_from_youtube

A ruby script to download youtube samples, convert to .wav format, and store on disk.

Primary LanguageRuby

Sample From Youtube

The purpose of this script is to make it easier to obtain musical samples from YouTube.

Installation:

Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/qkcire/sample_from_youtube.git

Install dependencies

brew install ffmpeg

brew install youtube-dl

Instructions:

Copy and paste the youtube ID of the sample (everything after the 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=') and give it a name

./sample_from_youtube [YOUTUBE_ID] [NAME_OF_FILE]

./sample_from_youtube ybfQRvl5r-I how_to_say_sample

After some time, the script should output a file of the sample in .wav format to your SAMPLES_STORAGE_PATH directory.