Search and download mp3 using youtubedl.

youtube_to_mp3.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import subprocess as sbp
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import argparse

command_list = ["python3",
"-m","youtube_dl", "--restrict-filenames" ,
    "--ignore-errors", "-x", "--audio-format", "mp3"]
def download(tube_hash: str):
    command_list.append(tube_hash)
    sbp.run(command_list, capture_output=True)


def get_list(search_term):
    # "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=maki+otsuki"
    st = "+".join(search_term.split(" "))
    url = "https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="+st
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content)
    for vid in soup.findAll(attrs={'class':'yt-uix-tile-link'}):
        if "list" not in vid['href']:
            ve = vid['href']
            try:
                res = ve.split("v=")[1]
            except IndexError:
                res = None
                pass
            download(res)
            break

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("search")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    get_list(search_term=args.search)

""" 
Requirements:
Python packages:
  1. youtube_dl
  2. bs4
  3. requests
"""

"""
Usage:
user@host:~$ python3 youtube_to_mp3.py "maki otsuki memories"
"""