youtube_i_ringtone

A small CLI interface to download and convert a youtube videos into a standard iOS ringtone. The task it to compress rather tedious process of finding, downloading and converting a file into a single command you can run from your terminal

Installation

The script itself is portable in relation to directory, so just clone thу repo or download the script individually and run with:

However, there are dependencies: bash,youtube-dl, ffmpeg. Apple still ships macOS with bash 3.2, the seems to work fine anyways, but shebang points to newer version installed via brew. The recommended approach is to update bash to much newer version.

Dependencies

Since currently this script only targets macOS, you are recommended to install them using Homebrew. If you don't use brew yet, you probably should start doing that. If you prefer manual instalation, this is also fine, just ensure that all dependencies are in $PATH.

Script to install dependencies using brew:

brew install bash youtube-dl ffmpeg

Usage

cd into the directory, you have chosen for the script, then run it with either:

bash youtube_i_ringtone -v [link_to_video]

or:

./youtube_i_ringotne -v [link_to_video]

Getting help

To get help page you can run script with no arguments or use -h flag.

Arguments and Flags

The only strictly necessary argument is a youtube video link. However, script comes with a minimal number of flags that allow you to change the length of the ringtone, select a specific part of a video, set a path (and name) to the output file. From the help menu:

-h    Shows help message
-v    Link to Youtube video to make the ringtone from. Uses youtube-dl
-p    Path (with a name) to the output (.m4r) file. Default is $HOME/Downloads/ringtone.m4r
-o    Offset (in seconds) the starting point of the ringtone. Default is 0 sec
-l    Lenght of the final ringtone. Starting from the offset. Default and max is 30 sec

License

License file is available in the repo. It is GPLv3.

Contribution

Feel free to add or modify my code. This is essentially my first published shell coding project, so it a little rough around the edges. If you feel confident in your ability to improve it, I would be very much willing to collaborate.

Thanks to @vudaltsov for helping me with a repo setup and tips.