gappeah / youtube-to-audio

This is a simple application that allows users to convert YouTube videos to MP3 audio files.

YouTube-To-Audio

A subset of the YouTube Downloader script. This Python script allows you to download audio from YouTube videos and convert them to MP3 format in 32 kbit/s, 96 kbit/s, 128 kbit/s, 192 kbit/s, 256 kbit/s and 320 kbit/s

Features:

• Validates YouTube video URLs.
• Extracts video title and removes non-alphabetical characters.
• Checks for video availability.
• Downloads the audio stream in MP4 format.
• Converts the MP4 audio to MP3 format.
• Cleans up by removing the downloaded MP4 file.

Usage:

1. Ensure you have the following libraries installed: requests, pytube, os, pydub, re, urllib.parse. You can install them using pip install requests pytube os pydub re urllib.parse.
2. Make sure you have FFmpeg installed on your system (https://github.com/BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds/releases) and the ffmpeg.exe, ffplay.exe, ffprobe.exe files in your project folder.
3. Save the code as youtube_mp3.py.
4. Run the script: python youtube_mp3.py.
5. Paste the YouTube video URL when prompted.
6. The script will download the audio, convert it to MP3, and save it in the same directory as the script.

Note:

• This script is for educational purposes only and should not be used for downloading copyrighted material without permission.
• This is a work in progress and may have bugs or limitations.

Updates:

• Direct MP4 to MP3 conversion has been achieved.
• Both www.youtube.com or youtu.be are accepted.
• Added new standard sample rate 48 khz.
• Added new bitrate options 32 kbit/s – generally acceptable only for speech, 96 kbit/s – generally used for speech or low-quality streaming, 128 kbit/s – mid-range bitrate quality, 192 kbit/s – medium-quality bitrate, 256 kbit/s – a commonly used high-quality bitrate and 320 kbit/s – highest level supported by the MP3 standard.