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⚡ A simple Node.JS YouTube to MP3 converter!

💻 Users can use an IDE like IntelliJ to convert YouTube videos to mp3 files without having to rely on 3rd party websites.

⚠ Only download music that you have permission to. Sources such as NoCopyrightSounds, and Creative Commons sources are a few examples of places where you are allowed to use this.

1. Go to the FFmpeg download page at https://ffmpeg.org/download.html.
2. Download the appropriate package for your operating system.
   • For Windows, I downloaded Windows builds from gyan.dev
     • Download the zip file
3. Extract the downloaded package to a location on your system.
4. Go to OS(C:)
   • Add a folder called PATH_Programs
   • Paste in these 3 executables from the bin folder of the zip file you extracted.
5. Go to Edit Environment Variables, click Path then edit, and make a new variable and paste C:\PATH_Programs.
6. To test if everything is installed correctly, go to Powershell and type in ffmpeg and this is what it should look like

• Audios are saved in the Music folder.
• Go to the server.js file and copy and paste the YouTube music url ID.
• Name the output file name to whatever you want.
• Then run node server.js in the terminal and watch the magic happen!
• Must have Node and npm installed. NodeJS Download
• Also please credit me if you're going to use this.

• Node.JS
• FFmpeg
• ytdl-core