Lidarr Music Video Downloader

Automatically download official music videos for your Lidarr artists

What It Does

This script runs inside your Lidarr container and automatically builds a music video library that Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby will love.

Features

** YouTube Direct**	Searches YouTube for official music videos with smart filtering
** Metadata**	Creates NFO files with MusicBrainz artist IDs and genres
** Thumbnails**	Downloads high-quality YouTube thumbnails for every video
** Tag Support**	Only process artists with a specific Lidarr tag - you're in control
** Safe Operation**	Never deletes, renames, or modifies your existing files
** Optimized**	Built-in rate limiting to avoid YouTube blocks
** Docker First**	Works perfectly with any Lidarr Docker image

Prerequisites

• Lidarr running in Docker (linuxserver or hotio images)
• Basic Docker knowledge (docker exec, docker logs)
• A YouTube account (for cookies - trust me, you want this)

Quick Start

1. Add 2 volumes to your container /custom-services.d and /custom-cont-init.d (do not map to the same local folder...)

2. Download the scripts_init.bash and place it into /custom-cont-init.d (Make sure script is executable)

3. Start your container and wait for the application to load

Credits

This project is based on the incredible work of RandomNinjaAtk whose arr-scripts provided the foundation and inspiration. If you find this useful, please consider sponsoring the original author: https://github.com/sponsors/RandomNinjaAtk

Additional thanks to:

• The Lidarr team
• yt-dlp developers
• The homelab community for endless inspiration