You can use youtube-dl to download only the audio of a given youtube video’s URL.
Check the available formats of the video with the -F
flag:
youtube-dl -F <video_url>
Some of the formats available will have “audio only” indicated in the listing.
Once you have the format number you would like to download use the -f
to perform the actual download:
youtube-dl -f <format_number_id> <video_url>