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A yt-dlp extractor plugin for downloading Spotify Canvas videos.

Installation

Requires yt-dlp 2023.01.02 or above.

You can install this package with pip:

python3 -m pip install -U https://github.com/qbnu/yt-dlp-SpotifyCanvas/archive/master.zip

See installing yt-dlp plugins for the other methods this plugin package can be installed.

Usage

IMPORTANT: Downloading will NOT work anymore unless you specify your sp_dc cookie. See How do I pass cookies to yt-dlp?. You can either use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies with a cookie file like this:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File

.spotify.com	TRUE	/	TRUE	2147483647	sp_dc	<your cookie value>

Download the Canvas for a song:

yt-dlp --cookies spotify-cookies.txt https://open.spotify.com/track/0DiWol3AO6WpXZgp0goxAV

Write the song info in yt-dlp format without downloading:

yt-dlp --write-info --skip-download --ignore-no-formats-error https://open.spotify.com/track/0DiWol3AO6WpXZgp0goxAV

Note: if you download a static Canvas (JPEG) with --write-thumbnail set then the thumbnail will overwrite the Canvas

Related projects

Thanks to Canvas Downloader for help with figuring out what cookies need to be sent.

My Spotify Canvas
librespot-java
Spotify Canvas Downloader
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