spotify-ripper

A fork of spotify-ripper that uses pyspotify v2.x

Spotify-ripper is a small ripper script for Spotify that rips Spotify URIs to MP3 files and includes ID3 tags and cover art.

Note that stream ripping violates the libspotify's ToS

Features

real-time VBR or CBR ripping from spotify PCM stream
writes id3 tags (including album covers)
creates files and directories based on the following structure artist/album/artist - song.mp3
optionally skip existing files
accepts tracks, playlists, albums, and artist URIs
search for tracks using Spotify queries
options for interactive login (no password in shell history) and relogin using previous credentials
option to remove tracks from playlist after successful ripping

Usage

usage: ripper [-h] [-b {160,320,96}] [-c] [-d DIRECTORY] [-u USER]
              [-p PASSWORD] [-l] [-m] [-o] [-v VBR]
              uri

Rips Spotify URIs to MP3s with ID3 tags and album covers

positional arguments:
  uri                   Spotify URI (either URI, a file of URIs or a search query)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b {160,320,96}, --bitrate {160,320,96}
                        Bitrate rip quality [Default=320]
  -c, --cbr             Lame CBR encoding [Default=VBR]
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        Base directory where ripped MP3s are saved [Default=cwd]
  -u USER, --user USER  Spotify username
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Spotify password [Default=ask interactively]
  -l, --last            Use last login credentials
  -m, --pcm             Saves a .pcm file with the raw PCM data
  -o, --overwrite       Overwrite existing MP3 files [Default=skip]
  -v VBR, --vbr VBR     Lame VBR encoding quality setting [Default=0]
  -r, --remove-from-playlist
                        Delete tracks from playlist after successful ripping [Default=no]

Example usage:
    rip a single file: ./ripper.py -u user -p password spotify:track:52xaypL0Kjzk0ngwv3oBPR
    rip entire playlist: ./ripper.py -u user -p password spotify:user:username:playlist:4vkGNcsS8lRXj4q945NIA4
    search for tracks to rip: /ripper.py -l -b 160 -o "album:Rumours track:'the chain'"

Installation

Prerequisites

libspotify
pyspotify
a Spotify binary app key (spotify_appkey.key)
lame
eyeD3
colorama

Mac OS X

Recommend approach uses homebrew and pyenv

$ git clone https://github.com/jrnewell/spotify-ripper.git
$ cd spotify-ripper
$ brew install homebrew/binary/libspotify
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib/libspotify.12.1.51.dylib \
    /usr/local/opt/libspotify/lib/libspotify
$ pip install --pre pyspotify
$ brew install lame
$ pip install eyeD3 --allow-external eyeD3 --allow-unverified eyeD3
$ pip install colorama
$ pyenv rehash

Download an application key file spotify_appkey.key from https://devaccount.spotify.com/my-account/keys/ (requires a Spotify Premium Account) and move to the spotify-ripper directory.

Ubuntu/Debian

Recommend approach uses pyenv

$ git clone https://github.com/jrnewell/spotify-ripper.git
$ cd spotify-ripper
$ sudo apt-get install lame build-essential libffi-dev
$ wget https://developer.spotify.com/download/libspotify/libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release.tar.gz # (assuming 64-bit)
$ cd libspotify-12.1.51-Linux-x86_64-release/
$ sudo make install prefix=/usr/local
$ cd ..
$ pip install --pre pyspotify
$ pip install eyeD3 --allow-external eyeD3 --allow-unverified eyeD3
$ pip install colorama
$ pyenv rehash