Problem to start a Python script

[petebocken]

12 minutes ago, deanishe said:

 

Never heard that before. Had to look it up. Quite a useful expression. Thanks!

 

I just dug out an old script that wraps youtube-dl. --ffmpeg-location /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg is likely the option you need.

 

YAHTZEE!  IT WORKS! 

 

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio --ffmpeg-location /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -q -o "/path-where-files-are-stored/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$url"; echo "Completed";

Edited April 6, 2017 by petebocken

[petebocken]

Thanks so much @deanishe!

[deanishe]

Glad I could help.

 

When you mentioned not being able to find ffmpeg, that definitely rang a bell. I remembered having the same issue when I tried to run my script from anywhere but a shell.

Edited April 6, 2017 by deanishe

[petebocken]

Even more fun.  Added another keyword in the workflow to only download the audio from the YouTube video and then drop it in the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder. 

 

/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -f m4a --ffmpeg-location /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -q -o "/Users/peter/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes/%(title)s.%(ext)s" "$url"; echo "Completed";

 

I could only get m4a working, the rest said the requested format not available.  M4A works in iTunes just fine.

Edited April 9, 2017 by petebocken