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YOGESHWARAN R
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From Spotify to YouTube: How I Built a Python Script to Convert Playlists

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I developed the script to convert the Spotify playlist to YouTube playlist. I am here to share how I done this.

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A simple python script to convert Spotify playlist into YouTube playlist

Spotify Playlist to YouTube Playlist

A simple python script to convert Spotify playlist into YouTube playlist

Usage

Setup Spotify and YouTube

  1. Go to the Google Cloud Console, sign in with your Google account, and create a new project.
  2. Once your project is created, select it from the project dropdown menu in the top navigation bar.
  3. Go to the Credentials page in the API & Services section of the left sidebar.
  4. Click on the "Create Credentials" button and select "OAuth client ID".
  5. After creating select edit button in the OAuth 2.0 Client IDs, Under 'Authorized JavaScript origins' add this URI http://localhost and under "Authorized redirect URIs " add this URI http://localhost and then click save.
  6. Click the download button to download the credentials in your project directory. Rename the file to client_secret.json
  7. Go to the OAuth consent screen in the API & Services section of the left sidebar. Under test user…
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Setting up environment

Install the required python packages

pip install google-auth google-auth-oauthlib google-auth-httplib2 spotipy pytube
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Spotify part

  • Go to the Spotify Developer Dashboard and log in with your Spotify account.
  • Click on the "Create an App" button and fill out the necessary information, such as the name and description of your application.
  • Once you've created the app, you'll be taken to the app dashboard. Here, you'll find your client ID and client secret, which are used to authenticate your application with the Spotify API.
  • After getting your client ID and client secret.
  • Create a file spotify_client.py
  • Add required import statement 
from dataclasses import dataclass

import spotipy
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyClientCredentials
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  • Create data class Playlist to access data easily 
@dataclass
class Playlist:
    name: str
    description: str
    tracks: list[str]
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  • Create class SpotipyClient 
class SpotifyClient:

    def __init__(self) -> None:
        client_id = "<your_client_id>"
        client_secret = "<your_client_secret>"
        auth_manager = SpotifyClientCredentials(client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret)
        self.spotify = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=auth_manager)

    def get_playlist(self, id: str):
        playlist = self.spotify.playlist(id)
        queries = []
        tracks = playlist['tracks']['items']
        for track in tracks:
            track_name = track['track']['name']
            artists = ', '.join([artist['name'] for artist in track['track']['artists']])
            queries.append(f'{track_name} by {artists}')
        return(Playlist(playlist['name'], playlist['description'], queries))
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On class initialization, login into the Spotify using credentials and get_playlist method fetch the playlist name, description and track name for search query and return a Playlist.

YouTube part

  • Go to the Google Cloud Console, sign in with your Google account, and create a new project.
  • Once your project is created, select it from the project dropdown menu in the top navigation bar.
  • Go to the Credentials page in the API & Services section of the left sidebar.
  • Click on the "Create Credentials" button and select "OAuth client ID".
  • After creating select edit button in the OAuth 2.0 Client IDs, Under 'Authorized JavaScript origins' add this URI http://localhost:8080 and under "Authorized redirect URIs
  • " add this URI http://localhost:8080/ and then click save.
  • Click the download button to download the credentials in your project directory. Rename the file to client_secret.json
  • Go to the OAuth consent screen in the API & Services section of the left sidebar. Under test user add your Gmail id.
  • Create file youtube_client.py
  • Add import statements 
from pytube import Search
from pytube.contrib.search import logger

from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from googleapiclient.discovery import build

logger. Disabled = True
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The logger of pytube is disabled to avoid unnecessary warings.

  • Create class YouTubeClient 
class YouTubeClient:
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
            "client_secret.json",
            scopes=["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl"],
        )

        creds = flow.run_local_server()

        self.youtube = build("youtube", "v3", credentials=creds)

    def create_playlist(self, name: str, description: str):
        playlist = (
            self.youtube.playlists()
            .insert(
                part="snippet,status",
                body={
                    "snippet": {
                        "title": name,
                        "description": description,
                        "defaultLanguage": "en",
                    },
                    "status": {"privacyStatus": "public"},
                },
            )
            .execute()
        )

        return playlist

    def add_song_playlist(self, playlist_id: str, video_id: str):
        request = (
                self.youtube.playlistItems()
                .insert(
                    part="snippet",
                    body={
                        "snippet": {
                            "playlistId": playlist_id,
                            "resourceId": {"kind": "youtube#video", "videoId": video_id},
                        }
                    },
                )
            )
        playlist_item = request.execute()
        return playlist_item

    def search_video(self, query: str):

        return Search(query).results[0].video_id
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On class initialization, login into the YouTube using OAuth. Method create_playlist just create playlist with given name and description and add_song_playlist method add video to the given playlist.

Driving Code

  • Finally to drive a code, create new file, main.py 
import sys
import time
from spotify_client import SpotifyClient
from youtube_client import YouTubeClient

spotify = SpotifyClient()
youtube = YouTubeClient()

spotify_playlist_id = sys.argv[1]

spotify_playlist = spotify.get_playlist(spotify_playlist_id)

youtube_playlist_id = youtube.create_playlist(spotify_playlist.name, spotify_playlist.description)['id']


for track in spotify_playlist.tracks:
    print(f"Searching for {track}")
    id = youtube.search_video(track)
    youtube.add_song_playlist(youtube_playlist_id, id)
    print("Added...")
    time.sleep(1)

print("Done 👍")
print(f"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list={youtube_playlist_id}")

You get playlist id from the playlist URL of spotify. In this script, the playlist id get as command line args.
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  • Run this script 
python main.py <playlist_id>
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This will open a browser window to login into the google account. Just login into it. After execution of script it will print the playlist link.

Thank you

Top comments (6)

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Arjun Mudhaliyar •

Great work. Just wanted to know what if youtube does not have a particular song that is present in your spotify playlist?
id = youtube.search_video(track) # what if this returns NONE?

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YOGESHWARAN R • • Edited

Thank You,

def search_video(self, query: str):

    return Search(query).results[0].video_id
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This method return the result from pytube.Search. It works based on web scraping. It search for song by track name and by artist. It never returns None. In YouTube search also, it never says no result found. Otherwise update this method to

def search_video(self, query: str):
    try:
        return Search(query).results[0].video_id
    except IndexError:
        return None
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and

for track in spotify_playlist.tracks:
    print(f"Searching for {track}")
    id = youtube.search_video(track)
    if id:
        youtube.add_song_playlist(youtube_playlist_id, id)
        print("Added...")
        time.sleep(1)
    else:
        print(f"No result found for {track}")
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Arjun Mudhaliyar •

Yeah, got it. Thanks for the clarification. Cheers!

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edblv •

Nice !
I just have a problem, the process stopped after 100 items.
Why ?

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edblv •

Ok, I have found the solution : github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/blo...

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Jason David •

Nice submission mate. Want to know if its possible to only some track from a spotify playlists to youtube playlists. Is that possible with your script?

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