Digital Life Hacks

How to automatically download songs (mp3) from YouTube using Ruby Script

I asked a friend for some music suggestions, and received a long list of songs. Unsure what to do with it, I wrote a Ruby Script to lookup the songs on YouTube, and download the first link that shows up as an Mp3 file. You can do the same with any list of songs titles.

Pre-requisites:

  • Ruby
  • RubyGem Selenium-Webdriver

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Digital Life Hacks

Use Google Drive to Automatically Sync Music between Android Phone and PC for free

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

We want our music everywhere we go. Whether we’re working on a desktop at the office, lazing around with our laptops, or on a bus with our phones.
When we add to or remove music from our library, we want it to happen on all the devices, automatically.
We want to use our favourite music players, and not the ones the cloud services choose to impose on us.
We want all the music available offline too. Because crappy network connectivity shouldn’t stop the music.

Sounds like we’re asking for a lot. But there are still a couple of ways we can get all of that for free.

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