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Michal Lichwa
Michal Lichwa

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YT Podcaster

I’ve been looking for a tool that would convert YouTube videos to MP3 files so I could listen to the audio on my podcast player. There are a few MP3 converters, but they let you download files and none of them have the podcast feature.

Luckily, I’m a programmer. So I made one!

YT Podcaster is a YouTube to MP3 converter and a podcast feed generator written in PHP and based on the youtube-dl library. Right now, the interface is very minimal and consists of two API calls- convert and delete. YT Podcaster is a self-hosted app so its code needs to be hosted on your server and at this point it isn’t ready for a wider public.

There are lots of websites to convert YouTube videos into audio. Typically, you submit a URL, the conversion takes a few seconds and then you get another link to download the file. Well…what I was looking for is something that would take the URL of a YouTube video and serve it to my podcast player without additional clicks, downloads and uploads.

Of course, this app is not suitable for most YouTube videos. After all, people record videos (and not audio) for a reason. They want us to pay attention to the stuff they’re presenting as much as to what is being said. However, most of the YouTube channels I’m subscribed to are interviews or monologues where visuals aren’t necessary, so I don’t lose much anyway.

The tool I made is a server-side API and it requires a little bit of a back-end knowledge in order to install and configure the code. I don’t think it is a valuable solution for a non-technical users but it was a fun weekend exercise that makes me smile every time I convert a file and it shows up on my podcast player.

The code is available on Github. If you find this remotely useful, let me know! I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

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Michal Lichwa

Yeah... but thats the python library I'm using. I don't think that that many non-technical internet users know about it.

I will edit my post and remove 'spam and dead links' but what I ment are websites like this one. They look a bit sketchy to me.

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bagibagi700 • Edited

There are numerous mp4 to mp3 converter that will assist you with changing over the mp4 video to mp3.

Lets see the means

Youtube recordings are in mp4 design so you can download it to your gadget youtube video download
presently you need a mp4 to mp3 converter to change over the mp4 document in to the mp3 record . at that point you can utilize it for the web recording more
YouTube to MP3 -

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cafelagu.me

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milutaz

I like your tool in addition I use sconverter.com/ to download youtube video

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Michal Lichwa

I bet the sconverter.com uses the same python library my tool uses :)

I used to use a few different youtube to mp3 converters and they all work pretty similar. Most of them do their job pretty well but they let you download the mp3 file and then use it the way you want. My tool is a bit different since I keep all the files on my server and then make an rss feed for podcasts.

YTPodcaster l is very minimal at this point so feel free to contribute to the repo if you like :)
Take care,

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tehradio

thanks a lot
tehradio.com/

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ocean of games

there are many mp4 to mp3 converter that will help you to convert the mp4 video to mp3.
lets see the steps

  1. youtube videos are in mp4 format so you can download it to your device youtube video download guide
  2. now you need an mp4 to mp3 converter to convert the mp4 file in to the mp3 file . then you can use it for the podcast
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mihanmusicss • Edited

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mp3 juice

Thanks for sharing this information it’s very useful. You can also convert youtube video to mp3 with good sound quality. Through “mp3 juice” . It’s a free tool and no need to install any application. mp3juice.me/1-downloader/

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Mohammed laiq uddin • Edited

Thanks for sharing this info but I usually use these websites to convert youtube videos to mp3 :
mp3-juice.com/
mp3yt.net/
mp3park.com/

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Stafaband

You can use site downloader, example:
metrolagu321.com

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UpMusic

thanks to share article ^_^ upmusics.com/

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sarehnajibi

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