YouTube Video to Audio

Extract and download audio from YouTube videos.

Usage

python scripts/download_audio.py --video-url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"

Options

• --video-url (required) - YouTube video URL to download
• --quality - Quality selector (default: "bestaudio[abr<=64]/worstaudio")
• --audio-format - Output format: mp3, aac, wav (default: mp3)
• --bitrate - Audio bitrate: 64K, 128K, 192K, 320K (default: 64K)
• --output - Custom output path (default: ~/tmp/download_audio_result.mp3)

Examples

# Basic usage (default: 64K bitrate MP3 to ~/tmp/download_audio_result.mp3)
python scripts/download_audio.py --video-url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6rZtgHcbWA"

# High quality with custom bitrate
python scripts/download_audio.py --video-url "https://youtu.be/xyz" --quality "bestaudio" --bitrate "128K"

# Custom output location
python scripts/download_audio.py --video-url "https://youtu.be/xyz" --output "/path/to/output.mp3"

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• ffmpeg installed at ~/ffmpeg
• yt-dlp (auto-downloaded on first run)