Qlab script to rip audio from Youtube

This Applescript can be run in Qlab. A Pro licence (Audio/Video/Lighting) is required to run script cues. It is, of course, possible to run this via script editor.

The script will prompt the user for a youtube link and using youtube-dl and FFmpeg the audio will be extracted and downloaded to your downloads folder as a .wav

Installation

Use Homebrew to install FFmpeg and youtube-dl

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

brew install youtube-dl

brew install ffmpeg –with-libvpx

In Qlab, Create a script cue with the following…


-- Rough and ready script by Matt Royston-Bishop 17/07/2020
-- www.mattroystonbishop.com
-- Rip Youtube audio to wav using youtube-dl
-- No error checking. Link must be correct. i.e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn7uAsLWXpk

-- Installation Instructions
-- To install youtube-dl and FFmpeg use Brew https://brew.sh/
-- Open Terminal
-- /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
-- Install youtube-dl with...
-- brew install youtube-dl
-- Install FFMpeg with...
-- brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx

-- Ask for link
display dialog "Youtube Link" default answer ""
set the YoutubeLink to the text returned of the result

--
set thePath to quoted form of YoutubeLink
set downloadsPath to "Macintosh HD:Users:macuser:Downloads:" -- Where is your downloads folder
set theDialogText to "WAV file will be in Downloads Folder. I to Import"

-- Run process
do shell script "cd \"$HOME/Downloads\"; /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl -x --audio-format wav --no-warnings --ffmpeg-location /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg " & thePath

-- Display confirmation dialog
display dialog theDialogText

My full Qlab 4 template which contains this script along with other workflow and timesaving scripts can be found at mattroystonbishop.com/downloads/Qlab


Tagged #Qlab, #Applescript.