/ytmusicapi

Unofficial API for YouTube Music

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ytmusicapi: Unofficial API for YouTube Music

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A work-in-progress API that emulates web requests from the YouTube Music web client.

Currently you need to extract your authentication data from your web browser and provide it through a file for it to work.

Features

Browsing:
  • search (including all filters)
  • get artist information and releases (songs, videos, albums, singles)
  • get user information (videos, playlists)
  • get albums
  • get song metadata
  • get watch playlists (playlist that appears when you press play in YouTube Music)
Library management:
  • get library contents: playlists, songs, artists, albums and subscriptions
  • add/remove library content: rate songs, albums and playlists, subscribe/unsubscribe artists
Playlists:
  • create and delete playlists
  • modify playlists: edit metadata, add/move/remove tracks
  • get playlist contents
Uploads:
  • Upload songs and remove them again
  • List uploaded songs, artists and albums

Usage

from ytmusicapi import YTMusic

ytmusic = YTMusic('headers_auth.json')
playlistId = ytmusic.create_playlist("test", "test description")
search_results = ytmusic.search("Oasis Wonderwall")
ytmusic.add_playlist_items(playlistId, [search_results[0]['videoId']])

The tests are also a great source of usage examples.

Requirements

Setup and Usage

See the Documentation for detailed instructions

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. There are still some features that are not yet implemented. Please, refer to CONTRIBUTING.rst for guidance.