saavn-dl: Download Saavn playlists

I'm too lazy to download songs and too cheap to buy subscriptions, so I wrote this tiny script to fetch Saavn playlists and download the audio from YouTube.

The script stores the download history in an SQLite DB, so that it does not download the same files repeatedly.

This is a very hacky, ugly version that just works.

Why Saavn?

Spotify/Apple Music are more famous, but I wanted something that has Bollywood and other Indian language songs too. Also, I wanted FREE (see the first line in the readme).

Gaana/Saavn are the obvious candidates, and I wrote this so long ago that I actually forgot why I didn't use Gaana :')

Prerequisites

• Python 3.7
• Git

Installation

There are two options to install:

Install using pip

pip install saavn-dl

Install from source

Clone the repo and install the dependencies to get started.

$ git clone https://github.com/sumeshpremraj/saavn-dl.git
$ cd saavn-dl
$ python3 -m venv .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 saavn-dl --help

Usage

$ saavn-dl -p <playlist URL>

To do

• Import youtube-dl as a module, shelling out is baaaaad
• Check for ffmpeg/libav (depending on OS) for audio conversion
• Option to clear DB to start afresh
• Refactor and use console_scripts in setuptools for Windows compatibility
• Tests
• Remove SQLite and try json on disk?

Contributing

If you want a new feature or want to report a bug, open an issue. If you want to add a feature, fork the repo, create a feature branch, commit your changes and then send a pull request.

Credits

• youtube-dl (which I use to grab the audio in this script too)
• spotify-dl and xkcd-dl, which also provide convenient ways to download the respective media