youtube-dl music

getmusic.sh

#!/bin/bash

# you will need to have youtube-dl (pip) and dialog (apt-get) installed 

exec 3>&1;
result=$(dialog --title 'youtube-dl music downloader' --inputbox 'enter youtube url' 0 0 2>&1 1>&3);
exitcode=$?;
exec 3>&-;
# echo $result $exitcode;
youtube-dl -f bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 $result

needs;

• checks to see if binaries are on system
• supress youtube-dl output
• pipe progress to pv
• exit cleanly

resources

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/491509/how-to-get-dialog-box-input-directed-to-a-variable