{"id":28206,"library":"spotify-ripper-morgaroth","title":"spotify-ripper-morgaroth","description":"A fork of spotify-ripper that rips Spotify URIs to audio files. It uses libspotify to stream audio and encodes it to MP3, FLAC, etc. Current version 2.9.6. Release cadence is irregular; last release in 2020.","status":"maintenance","version":"2.9.6","language":"python","source_language":"en","source_url":"https://github.com/morgaroth/spotify-ripper","tags":["spotify","ripper","audio","fork"],"install":[{"cmd":"pip install spotify-ripper-morgaroth","lang":"bash","label":"pip"}],"dependencies":[],"imports":[{"note":"Incorrect due to package structure; use correct import path.","wrong":"from ripper import Ripper","symbol":"Ripper","correct":"from spotify_ripper import Ripper"}],"quickstart":{"code":"from spotify_ripper import Ripper\n\nusername = os.environ.get('SPOTIFY_USERNAME', '')\npassword = os.environ.get('SPOTIFY_PASSWORD', '')\nripper = Ripper(username=username, password=password)\nripper.rip('spotify:track:4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT', output_dir='/tmp')","lang":"python","description":"Instantiate Ripper with Spotify credentials and rip a track."},"warnings":[{"fix":"Consider using spotdl or other alternatives that use the Web API.","message":"This library uses libspotify, which is deprecated by Spotify. New accounts may not work.","severity":"deprecated","affected_versions":"all"},{"fix":"Ensure valid SPOTIFY_USERNAME and SPOTIFY_PASSWORD environment variables are set before instantiation.","message":"Ripper constructor may hang if credentials are invalid; no timeout handling.","severity":"gotcha","affected_versions":"all"}],"env_vars":null,"search_vec":"'2.9.6':33 '2020':41 'audio':16,23,44 'cadenc':35 'current':31 'encod':25 'etc':30 'file':17 'flac':29 'fork':6,45 'irregular':37 'last':38 'libspotifi':20 'morgaroth':4 'mp3':28 'releas':34,39 'rip':12 'ripper':3,10,43 'spotifi':2,9,13,42 'spotify-ripp':8 'spotify-ripper-morgaroth':1 'stream':22 'uri':14 'use':19 'version':32","created_at":"2026-05-09T05:54:17.445100+00:00","updated_at":"2026-05-09T05:54:17.445100+00:00","problems":{"verify_error":"× Failed to build `pyspotify==2.0.5`\n  ├─▶ The build backend returned an error\n  ╰─▶ Call to `setuptools.build_meta:__legacy__.build_wheel` failed (exit\n      status: 1)\n\n      [stdout]\n      running bdist_wheel\n      running build\n      running build_py\n      creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython"},"ecosystem":"pypi","meta_description":null,"install_score":null,"quickstart_score":null,"quickstart_tag":null,"pypi_latest":null,"cli_name":"spotify-ripper","cli_version":"","type":"library","homepage":null,"github":"https://github.com/morgaroth/spotify-ripper-morgaroth","docs":null,"changelog":null,"pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/spotify-ripper-morgaroth/","npm":null,"openapi_spec":null,"status_page":null,"smithery":null,"categories":["data"],"base_url":null,"auth_type":null,"provenance":{"verified_status":"install_fail","verified_at":"2026-06-29","last_verified":"2026-06-29","next_check":"2026-07-06","install_tag":null}}