A simple script to pipe URIs through youtube-dl and into musicpd.

mpd-youtube-dl.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
A simple script to pipe URIs through youtube-dl and into musicpd.

pip3 install python-mpd2 youtube-dl
"""
import sys
import mpd
import youtube_dl

mpd_host=('localhost', 6600)
ydl_opts = {
    'format': 'bestaudio/audio'
}

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) is not 2:
        print("usage: {} <url>".format(sys.argv[0]))
        sys.exit(1)
    source_url = sys.argv[1]
    client = mpd.MPDClient(use_unicode=True)

    with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
        info = ydl.extract_info(source_url, download=False)
        url = info.get('url')
        title = info.get('title')
        source = info.get('extractor_key')

    if not (url and title and source):
        print("youtube-dl error.")
        sys.exit(1)

    client.connect(*mpd_host)
    song_id = client.addid(url)
    client.addtagid(song_id, 'title', title)
    client.addtagid(song_id, 'album', source)
    client.disconnect()