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+# Spotify Playlist Downloader
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Global or local python environment with all packages from `requirements.txt`.
+- FFMPEG according to the installation instructions for SpotDL. (https://ffmpeg.org/)
+
+- Spotify-API client with ID and secret for SpotiPy. The following ENV variables have to be set:
+
+```
+SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID='your_spotify_client_id'
+SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET='your_spotify_client_secret'
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+The script has to be run from commandline with `python playlist_downloader.py <username> <playlist_root_dir>`
+All public playlists by the given user will be downloaded.
+If the playlist root does not exist yet, it will be created.
+For each playlist a directory will be created in the playlist root.
+The actual songs from the playlists will be downloaded to their respectively named directories.
+
+A file called `additional_playlists.txt` can be used to specify additional playlists to download.
+Each playlist has to be added as a new line containing the URI to the public playlist.
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