Save an audio file into your Spotify account via CLI

I have added several long conversational youtube videos into a playlist, hoping I’ll come back to the them some day, but in reality I never do that. Recently I found out that Spotify has released a new save-to-spotify CLI tool that lets you upload any audio file into your Spotify account as a private podcast episode. This is perfect for me, as I can download those youtube videos as audio files, upload them to Spotify, and listen to them while I’m driving. Here’s how you can do that: Download the Audio from Youtube Install yt-dlp and ffmpeg: brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg Download and extract the audio: yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUR_VIDEO_ID" Save to Spotify Install save-to-spotify: curl -fsSL https://saveto.spotify.com/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-skills Then authenticate with your Spotify account: save-to-spotify auth login Now you can: Add a new episode and create a new show: save-to-spotify…