spotify-ripper is a small ripper program for Spotify that rips Spotify URIs to audio files with metadata and cover art. By default spotify-ripper will encode to MP3 files, but includes the ability to rip to WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, AAC, and MP4/M4A.
Note that stream ripping violates Spotify's ToS
To generate your Spotify Client ID and Secret, access the developer dashboard page and create a new application. As a redirect URI, add localhost and a port, so that Spotipy can parse it automatically.
Make sure you save the web api credentials and redirect URI in your configuration file (~/.spotify-ripper/config.ini):
[main]
spotipy_client_id='77aa1aa93dc0416397f22a7a9b4a815b'
spotipy_client_secret='0d79181c57ee412aaa770af257edf07a'
spotipy_redirect_uri='http://localhost:8000/'
Or alternatively, export the web api credentials and redirect URI in your unix shell:
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='77aa1aa93dc0416397f22a7a9b4a815b'
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET='0d79181c57ee412aaa770af257edf07a'
export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI='http://localhost:8000/'
At the first attempt to use the ripper against a playlist, a browser window with a Spotify login will open. Login, and the ripper parses automatically the returning OAuth redirect.
A couple notes about Spotify's WebAPI token authentication:
- The token is stored in a file named
.profile-<username>. - The authentication token is stored where the script is executed from, so if you're in your home directory and execute a script thats in
/usr/binit will be stored in your home directory. - If you are running this in a script or other form of automation, you'll have to manually authenticate once but after that as long as you always execute it from the same location you won't have to authenticate again.
As of May 2015 libspotify is officially deprecated by Spotify and is no longer actively maintained. As of Jan 2016 Spotify does no longer issue developer keys.
Spotify has published newer libraries intended for Android and iOS development, as well as web APIs to access track metadata and manage playlists. Though, for making apps with Spotify playback capabilities, on any other platform than Android and iOS, there is currently no alternative to libspotify.
- Real-time VBR or CBR ripping from Spotify PCM stream
- Writes ID3v2/metadata tags (including album covers)
- Rips files into the following directory structure:
artist/album/artist - song.mp3by default or optionally into a user-specified structure (seeFormat String_ section below) - Option to skip or overwrite existing files
- Accepts tracks, playlists, albums, and artist URIs
- Search for tracks using Spotify queries
- Options for interactive login (no password in shell history) and to relogin using previous credentials
- Option to remove tracks from playlist after successful ripping
- Globally installs ripper using pip3
- Use a config file to specify common command-line options
- Helpful progress bar to gauge the time remaining until completion
- Keep local files in sync with a Spotify playlist, m3u and wpl playlist file
- Option to rip to ALAC/FLAC/AIFF (loseless codecs) or Ogg Vorbis, Opus, AAC and MP4/M4A instead of MP3
- Option to replace output filenames
- Option to normalize output filenames to NFKD (see http://unicode.org/faq/normalization.html)
Please note: Spotify’s highest quality setting is 320 kbps, so the benefit of ripping to a lossless format is to not double encode the audio data. It’s not possible to rip in true lossless quality.
Takes many command-line options:
usage: spotify-ripper [-h] [-S SETTINGS] [-a] [--aac] [--aiff] [--alac] [--all-artists] [--artist-album-type ARTIST_ALBUM_TYPE] [--artist-album-market ARTIST_ALBUM_MARKET] [-A]
[-b BITRATE] [-c] [--comp COMP] [--comment COMMENT] [--cover-file COVER_FILE] [--cover-file-and-embed COVER_FILE] [-d DIRECTORY] [--fail-log FAIL_LOG] [--flac]
[-f FORMAT] [--format-case {upper,lower,capitalize}] [--flat] [--flat-with-index] [-g {artist,album}] [--grouping GROUPING] [--id3-v23] [-k KEY] [-u USER]
[-p PASSWORD] [--large-cover-art] [-l] [-L LOG] [--pcm] [--mp4] [--normalize] [-na] [-o] [--opus] [--partial-check {none,weak,strict}]
[--play-token-resume RESUME_AFTER] [--playlist-m3u] [--playlist-wpl] [--playlist-sync] [--plus-pcm] [--plus-wav] [-q VBR] [-Q {160,320,96}] [--remove-offline-cache]
[--resume-after RESUME_AFTER] [-R REPLACE [REPLACE ...]] [-s] [--stereo-mode {j,s,f,d,m,l,r}] [--stop-after STOP_AFTER] [--timeout TIMEOUT] [-V] [--wav]
[--windows-safe] [--vorbis] [-r]
uri [uri ...]
Rips Spotify URIs to media files with tags and album covers
positional arguments:
uri One or more Spotify URI(s) (either URI, a file of URIs or a search query)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a, --ascii Convert the file name and the metadata tags to ASCII encoding [Default=utf-8]
--aac Rip songs to AAC format with FreeAAC instead of MP3
--aiff Rip songs to lossless AIFF encoding instead of MP3
--alac Rip songs to Apple Lossless format instead of MP3
--all-artists Store all artists, rather than just the main artist, in the track's metadata tag
--artist-album-type ARTIST_ALBUM_TYPE
Only load albums of specified types when passing a Spotify artist URI [Default=album,single,ep,compilation,appears_on]
--artist-album-market ARTIST_ALBUM_MARKET
Only load albums with the specified ISO2 country code when passing a Spotify artist URI. You may get duplicate albums if not set. [Default=any]
-A, --ascii-path-only
Convert the file name (but not the metadata tags) to ASCII encoding [Default=utf-8]
-b BITRATE, --bitrate BITRATE
CBR bitrate [Default=320]
-c, --cbr CBR encoding [Default=VBR]
--comp COMP compression complexity for FLAC and Opus [Default=Max]
--comment COMMENT Set comment metadata tag to all songs. Can include same tags as --format.
--cover-file COVER_FILE
Save album cover image to file name (e.g "cover.jpg") [Default=embed]
--cover-file-and-embed COVER_FILE
Same as --cover-file but embeds the cover image too
-d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
Base directory where ripped MP3s are saved [Default=cwd]
--fail-log FAIL_LOG Logs the list of track URIs that failed to rip
--flac Rip songs to lossless FLAC encoding instead of MP3
-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
Save songs using this path and filename structure (see README)
--format-case {upper,lower,capitalize}
Convert all words of the file name to upper-case, lower-case, or capitalized
--flat Save all songs to a single directory (overrides --format option)
--flat-with-index Similar to --flat [-f] but includes the playlist index at the start of the song file
-g {artist,album}, --genres {artist,album}
Attempt to retrieve genre information from Spotify's Web API [Default=skip]
--grouping GROUPING Set grouping metadata tag to all songs. Can include same tags as --format.
--id3-v23 Store ID3 tags using version v2.3 [Default=v2.4]
Spotify password [Default=ask interactively]
--large-cover-art Attempt to retrieve 640x640 cover art from Spotify's Web API [Default=300x300]
-l, --last Use last login credentials
-L LOG, --log LOG Log in a log-friendly format to a file (use - to log to stdout)
--pcm Saves a .pcm file with the raw PCM data instead of MP3
--mp4 Rip songs to MP4/M4A format with Fraunhofer FDK AAC codec instead of MP3
--normalize Normalize volume levels of tracks
-na, --normalized-ascii
Convert the file name to normalized ASCII with unicodedata.normalize (NFKD)
-o, --overwrite Overwrite existing MP3 files [Default=skip]
--opus Rip songs to Opus encoding instead of MP3
--partial-check {none,weak,strict}
Check for and overwrite partially ripped files. "weak" will err on the side of not re-ripping the file if it is unsure, whereas "strict" will re-rip the file [Default=weak]
-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
--play-token-resume RESUME_AFTER
If the 'play token' is lost to a different device using the same Spotify account, the script will wait a specified amount of time before restarting. This argument takes the same values as --resume-after [Default=abort]
--playlist-m3u create a m3u file when ripping a playlist
--playlist-wpl create a wpl file when ripping a playlist
--playlist-sync Sync playlist songs (rename and remove old songs)
--plus-pcm Saves a .pcm file in addition to the encoded file (e.g. mp3)
--plus-wav Saves a .wav file in addition to the encoded file (e.g. mp3)
-q VBR, --vbr VBR VBR quality setting or target bitrate for Opus [Default=0]
-Q {160,320,96}, --quality {160,320,96}
Spotify stream bitrate preference [Default=320]
--remove-offline-cache
Remove libspotify's offline cache directory after the ripis complete to save disk space
--resume-after RESUME_AFTER
Resumes script after a certain amount of time has passed after stopping (e.g. 1h30m). Alternatively, accepts a specific time in 24hr format to start after (e.g 03:30, 16:15). Requires --stop-after option to be set
-R REPLACE [REPLACE ...], --replace REPLACE [REPLACE ...]
pattern to replace the output filename separated by "/". The following example replaces all spaces with "_" and all "-" with ".": spotify-ripper --replace " /_" "\-/." uri
-s, --strip-colors Strip coloring from output [Default=colors]
--stereo-mode {j,s,f,d,m,l,r}
Advanced stereo settings for Lame MP3 encoder only
--stop-after STOP_AFTER
Stops script after a certain amount of time has passed (e.g. 1h30m). Alternatively, accepts a specific time in 24hr format to stop after (e.g 03:30, 16:15)
--timeout TIMEOUT Override the PySpotify timeout value in seconds (Default=10 seconds)
-u USER, --user USER Spotify username
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
--wav Rip songs to uncompressed WAV file instead of MP3
--windows-safe Make filename safe for Windows file system (truncate filename to 255 characters)
--vorbis Rip songs to Ogg Vorbis encoding instead of MP3
-r, --remove-from-playlist
Delete tracks from playlist after successful ripping [Default=no]
Example usage:
rip a single file: spotify-ripper -u <username> spotify:track:52xaypL0Kjzk0ngwv3oBPR
rip entire playlist: spotify-ripper -u <username> spotify:user:<username>:playlist:4vkGNcsS8lRXj4q945NIA4
rip a list of URIs: spotify-ripper -u <username> -p <password> list_of_uris.txt
rip a list of URIs using last login: spotify-ripper -l list_of_uris.txt
rip tracks from Spotify's charts: spotify-ripper -l spotify:charts:regional:global:weekly:latest
search for tracks to rip: spotify-ripper -l -Q 160 -o "album:Rumours track:'the chain'"
spotify-ripper will work with your regular Facebook login/password if you setup your Spotify account to login using your Facebook credentials. Otherwise, use your Spotify login/password.
For options that you want set on every run, you can use a config file named ~/.spotify-ripper/config.ini. The options in the config file use the same name as the command line options with the exception that dashes are translated to snake_case. Any option specified in the command line will overwrite any setting in the config file. Please put all options under a [main] section.
Here is an example config file:
[main]
ascii = True
directory = ~/Music
format = {album_artist}/{album}/{artist} - {track_name}.{ext}
quality = 160
vorbis = True
last = True
The format string dictates how spotify-ripper will organize your ripped files. This is controlled through the -f | --format option. The string should include the format of the file name and optionally a directory structure. If you do not include a format string, the default format will be used: {album_artist}/{album}/{artist} - {track_name}.{ext}.
The --flat option is shorthand for using the format string: {artist} - {track_name}.{ext}, and the --flat-with-index option is shorthand for using the format string: {idx:3} - {artist} - {track_name}.{ext}. The use of these shorthand options will override any --format string option given.
Your format string can include the following variables names, which are case-sensitive and wrapped in curly braces, if you want your file/path name to be overwritten with Spotify metadata.
| Names and Aliases | Description |
|---|---|
{track_artist}, {artist} |
The track's artist |
{track_artists}, {artists} |
Similar to {track_artist} but will join multiple artists with a comma (e.g. "artist 1, artist 2") |
{album_artist} |
When passing an album, the album's artist (e.g. "Various Artists"). If no album artist exists, the track artist is used instead |
{album_artists_web} |
Similar to {album_artist} but retrieves artist information from Spotify's Web API. Unlike {album_artist}, multiple album artists can be retrieved and will be joined with a comma (e.g. "artist 1, artist 2") |
{album} |
Album name |
{track_name}, {track} |
Track name |
{year} |
Release year of the album |
{ext}, {extension} |
Filename extension (i.e. "mp3", "ogg", "flac", ...) |
{idx}, {index} |
Playlist index |
{track_num}, {track_idx}, {track_index} |
The track number of the disc |
{disc_num}, {disc_idx}, {disc_index} |
The disc number of the album |
{smart_track_num}, {smart_track_idx} |
For a multi-disc album, {smart_track_num} will return a number combining the disc and {smart_track_index} the track number. e.g. for disc 2, track 4 it will return "204". For a single disc album, it will return the track num. |
{playlist}, {playlist_name} |
Name of playlist if passed a playlist uri, otherwise "No Playlist" |
{playlist_owner}, {playlist_user}, {playlist_username} |
User name of playlist's owner if passed a playlist uri, otherwise "No Playlist Owner" |
{playlist_track_add_time}, {track_add_time} |
When the track was added to the playlist |
{playlist_track_add_user}, {track_add_user} |
The user that added the track to the playlist |
{user}, {username} |
Spotify username of logged-in user |
{feat_artists}, {featuring_artists} |
Featuring artists join by commas (see Prefix String section below) |
{copyright} |
Album copyright message |
{label}, {copyright_holder} |
Album copyright message with the year removed at the start of the string if it exists |
{track_uri}, {uri} |
Spotify track uri |
Any substring in the format string that does not match a variable above will be passed through to the file/path name unchanged.
Format variables that represent an index can be padded with zeros to a user-specified length. For example, {idx:3} will produce the following output: 001, 002, 003, etc. If no number is provided, no zero-filled padding will occur (e.g. 8, 9, 10, 11, ...). The variables that accept this option include {idx}, {track_num}, {disc_num}, {smart_track_num} and their aliases.
Format variable feat_artists takes a prefix string to be prepended before the output. For example, {feat_artists:featuring} will produce the follow output featuing Bruno Mars. If there are no featuring artists, the prefix string (and any preceding spaces) will not be included.
By default, other than checking for an overwrite, spotify-ripper will not keep track of local files once they are ripped from Spotify. However, if you use the --playlist-sync option when passing a playlist URI, spotify-ripper will store a json file in your settings directory that keeps track of location of your ripped files for that playlist.
If at a later time, the playlist is changed on Spotify (i.e. songs reordered, removed or added), spotify-ripper will try to keep your local files "in sync" the playlist if you rerun the same command. For example, if your format string is {index} {artist} - {track_name}.{ext}, it will rename is existing files so the index is correct. Note that with option set, spotify-ripper will delete a song that was previously on the playlist, but was removed but still exists on your local machine. It does not affect files outside of the playlist and has no effect on non-playlist URIs.
If you want to redownload a playlist (for example with improved quality), you either need to remove the song files from your local or use the --overwrite option.
Use pip3 to install and upgrade to the latest version.
$ pip3 install --user --upgrade git+https://github.com/scaronni/spotify-ripper
Python libraries:
System libraries and commands
- lame
- libspotify, with a Spotify binary app key spotify_appkey.key
- faac (optional)
- fdkaac (optional)
- ffmpeg (optional)
- flac (optional)
- opus-tools (optional)
- sox (optional)
- vorbis-tools (optional)
An application key file (spotify_appkey.key) from https://devaccount.spotify.com/my-account/keys/ (requires a Spotify Premium Account) in the ~/.spotify-ripper directory (or use the -k | --key option).