Built Myself a YouTube Audio Downloader — And You Can Too!

Have you ever found a piece of music or background audio on YouTube that isn’t available on Spotify, Apple Music, or anywhere else? That’s exactly why I built a simple Python tool that lets you download just the audio from any YouTube video — and it saves it as a high-quality mp3 file.

No API keys, no complicated setup, no sketchy websites. Just paste the link, and it does the rest.

What This Tool Does

• You paste a YouTube video link

• It downloads only the audio track

• Converts it to an mp3 in 320kbps quality

• Saves it in a neat songs/ folder

• Done. Clean and simple

It’s especially useful for grabbing songs that aren’t on streaming platforms or for saving audio from lectures, podcasts, or background music.

Try It Yourself

I’ve uploaded the full code and setup instructions here:

GitHub Repository – YouTube Audio Downloader

It’s just one small script, easy to understand and tweak if you want to customize it.

What You’ll Need

• A Python environment

• The yt_dlp library (installable with pip)

• Optional: ffmpeg for converting to mp3 in best quality

Everything is explained clearly in the GitHub repo:

Get the Code on GitHub

Why I Made This

I wanted a reliable way to download songs and audio from YouTube without depending on online tools that break, show ads, or collect your data. This script is my solution to that. It's minimal, offline, and under your control.

Feel free to fork the repo, use it as-is, or improve it however you’d like.

Here’s the link one more time:

github.com/abhinav25232354/youtube-audio-downloader-python

Thanks for stopping by. I hope it helps. And if you have any thoughts or ideas, I’d really love to hear them.