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spotDL

Overview

spotDL is a command-line music downloader that finds Spotify tracks on YouTube and downloads them with album art, lyrics, and metadata. This stack runs the optional web UI, providing a browser interface where you can paste Spotify links to download tracks, albums, or playlists.

Project Details

Getting Started

Open http://localhost:8800 in your browser:

  1. Find a Spotify track, album, or playlist URL
  2. Paste it into the spotDL web UI
  3. Click download — spotDL finds the song on YouTube and saves it as an MP3 with full metadata

Downloaded files appear in the /music volume.

Environment Variable Notes

Variable Description
SPOTDL_IMAGE Container image (default: spotdl/spotify-downloader:latest)
SPOTDL_RESTART Restart policy (default: unless-stopped)
SPOTDL_PORT Published port for the web UI (default: 8800)
VOL_PATH Base path for persistent data volumes (default: /data)

Volume Notes

Volume Purpose
${VOL_PATH:-/data}/spotdl/music Downloaded music files

Network Notes

Requires an external proxy network. Create it once with:

docker network create proxy

Docker Run

docker run -d \
  --name=spotdl \
  -p 8800:8800 \
  -v ${VOL_PATH:-/data}/spotdl/music:/music \
  --network proxy \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  spotdl/spotify-downloader:latest \
  web

Additional Notes / Gotchas

Nothing specific to this stack so far.

Dockhand Stack, Deploy from Git

  • Cookbooks Repository
  • stackname: spotdl_dev
  • Compose file path: spotdl_dev/compose.yaml
  • Additional env file (optional): spotdl_dev/sample.env

Load spotdl_dev/sample.env into the Environment variables in Dockhand, then create the Stack.