BangerBot — Get those bangers banging 🔥

What is this for?

Preparing a DJ set and digging for tracks car be very time consuming and cumbersome. This is a tool aimed for DJs to ease their workflow by providing them a simple utility to download their favorites (FREE !) tracks.

It's as simple as this:

banger get https://soundcloud.com/fc_kabagar/kylie-on-jersey

When you're in a digging session, you might not want to spend time getting your tracks in-between each listening, but you still want to save them. Just write your tracks urls (Youtube or Soundcloud) inside your ~/Music/bangerbot/bangers.txt file. When you're ready, run a batch to catch'em all:

banger batch

When downloading your bangers, BangerBot will automatically put them either in bangerbot/HQ-tracks/ (High Quality) or bangerbot/LQ-tracks/ (Low Quality) depending on their audio format, ready to be imported to your Traktor, Rekordbox or Serato libraries:

BangerBot will write the urls of all the downloaded tracks in bangers_history.txt.

But... why?

BangerBot is essentially a wrapper around scdl and yt-dlp. You could run a command with either of them and get the same result as with BangerBot. But you'd have to first decide which CLI tool to use depending on the source (Youtube or Soundcloud) and then remember their commands and all the options each time.

Here's what the equivalent of banger get <youtube_url> looks like with, e.g., yt-dlp:

yt-dlp --format bestaudio[ext=m4a] <youtube_url> -P <your_download_directory>

What BangerBot provides is mainly 2 things:

• A simple and consistent interface, because you don't care if that track is coming from SoundCloud or Youtube, you just want to get it.
• A workflow utility that helps you get straight to the point and reduce the hassle when preparing a DJ set.

Installation

1. Install pipx

If you don't have it, install pipx

MacOS

brew install pipx
pipx ensurepath

Linux

python3 -m pip install --user pipx
python3 -m pipx ensurepath

2. Install BangerBot

pipx install bangerbot

3. Run init

Follow the prompt to setup the folder used by BangerBot:

banger init

This will create the bangerbot folder and install the scdland yt-dlp dependencies via pipx if they are not found

Use BangerBot

get

Download a banger:

banger get https://soundcloud.com/fc_kabagar/kylie-on-jersey

batch

Download multiples bangers at once. Simply put your tracks url inside bangers.txt (1 url per line) and run a batch:

banger batch

The default location for bangers.txt is ~/Music/bangerbot/bangers.txt but you can change it when setting up with banger init or you can point to any file you like using the -f option.

banger batch -f ~/Music/some_more_bangers.txt

Supported urls

For now, BangerBot only supports SoundCloud and Youtube urls.

Roadmap

• Support Youtube and SoundCloud urls
• banger get
• banger batch
• Tests
• Improve history format: banger_name: short_url
• Shell completion
• banger info to get info about a track
• banger history to display history
• banger where to show the location of the bangerbot folder
• Safely clear banger.txt content after download
• Fetch metadata to downloaded tracks

Disclaimer

Supporting music artists is very important to keep them bangers coming. This tool is intended to get tracks when they are made freely available for download by the producer or as a last resort if you really can't get the track anywhere else.

Besides, tracks that are not freely available will be downloaded in .mp3 or .m4a which might sound ok for you at home but probably won't on a larger sound system.

Do not use this tool to steal artists and music producers hard work, seriously. 🙏