marsimgit/SpotifyGeneratePlaylist

SpotifyGeneratePlaylist

A simple script that takes your liked videos on Youtube, and generates a Spotify playlist based on the song in your liked videos.

Table of Contents

• Video
• Technologies
• Setup
• ToDo
• Troubleshooting

Video

Check out the youtube video for a step by step walk through Youtube Video

Technologies

• Youtube Data API v3
• Spotify Web API
• Requests Library v 2.22.0
• Youtube_dl v 2020.01.24

LocalSetup

1. Install All Dependencies
   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

2. Collect You Spotify User ID and Oauth Token From Spotfiy and add it to secrets.py file

   • To Collect your User ID, Log into Spotify then go here: Account Overview and its your Username
   • To Collect your Oauth Token, Visit this url here: Get Oauth and click the Get Token button

3. Enable Oauth For Youtube and download the client_secrets.json

   • Ok this part is tricky but its worth it! Just follow the guide here Set Up Youtube Oauth ! If you are having issues check this out Oauth Setup 2 and this one too Oauth Setup 3

4. Run the File
   python3 create_playlist.py

   • you'll immediately see Please visit this URL to authorize this application: <some long url>
   • click on it and log into your Google Account to collect the authorization code

ToDo

• Tests
• Add Error Handling

Troubleshooting

• Spotify Oauth token expires very quickly, If you come across a KeyError this could be caused by an expired token. So just refer back to step 3 in local setup, and generate a new token!