I was switching from Spotify to YouTube Music and wanted my old playlists to move with me to the new music streaming service, so I created a tool that helped me get that task done automatically! You can use it too!

How does it work? 😮

All you gotta do is insert your >>PUBLIC<< Spotify playlist link/URL in the configuration file, then the app will automatically search all songs from that playlist on YouTube Music and automatically add them to a playlist of your choice.

How to use it?

Setting up the tools

1. If you don't have firefox please install it from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
2. If you don't have python installed (Mac comes with python preinstalled) then please install it from https://www.python.org/downloads/
3. Go to https://github.com/rimonhanna/Spotify-To-Youtube
4. Click on the green button called Code, then click on Download Zip, unzip/extract the file to the folder of your choosing
5. Open Terminal/Command Prompt then navigate to the folder of the extracted folder using cd path_to_folder for example cd ~/Downloads/Spotify-To-Youtube-master/
6. Finally run the script by copying this command ./run.sh into your Terminal/Command Prompt and press enter, that will open a web page for you.
7. You're now all set and ready to use start migrating your playlists

Migrating your playlists

1. To use the script, you gotta register an app as a developer on Spotify.
   • Go to this link https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/
   • Log in to your spotify account
   • Click in Create an App
   • Give the app a name and a description and then create the app
2. Go to https://open.spotify.com/ and open the spotify playlist you intend to copy/migrate in the browser, make it public or shareable, and then copy its id (the right most part of the link/url in the address bar e.g. 7EQFI3982FGL) to the web page's source_playlist_id
3. Copy Client ID from the spotify app page to web page's your_spotify_client_id
4. Click on show client secret and copy the client secret from the spotify app page to the web page's replacing your_spotify_client_secret
5. Add your Spotify source IDs - you can find it at the end of the Spotify URI (see above) for an artist, track, album, etc. Example: 6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6
6. Replace target_playlist_name with the name of the playlist you want the tracks to be added to in YouTube music
7. Get youtube music authentication headers
   1. Open a new tab
   2. Open the developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I) and select the “Network” tab
   3. Go to https://music.youtube.com and ensure you are logged in
   4. Find an authenticated POST request. The simplest way is to filter by /browse using the search bar of the developer tools. If you don’t see the request, try scrolling down a bit or clicking on the library button in the top bar.
   5. Verify that the request looks like this: Status 200, Method POST, Domain music.youtube.com, File browse?...
   6. Click on the Name of any matching request. In the “Headers” tab, scroll to the section “Request headers” and copy the value of cookie: to the end of the line and add it to ytmusic_headers.json

If you got an error that python(3) was not found:

• You need to add the python 3.x you just installed to the system PATH
• If you're using macOS catalina or newer (using zshrc) you can use this in the terminal echo "alias python=/usr/local/bin/python3.9" >> ~/.zshrc
• If you're using an older version of macOS then use this in the terminal instead echo "alias python=/usr/local/bin/python3.9" >> ~/.bashrc
• If you're using windows you could follow this simple guide https://datatofish.com/add-python-to-windows-path/

Buy me a coffee?

If you have enjoyed using this tool and migrating your playlists, consider buying me a coffee?

Pay Rimon Hanna using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/payrimon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it’s easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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What did I use to make it? 🤔

I used the following libraries:

• Spotipy (For handling the Spotify API)
• YTMusicAPI (For adding to the YouTube playlist automation)

Why did I make it?

I wanted to migrate my playlists from Spotify to YouTube Music and I didn't find any good tools out there to do it automatically, so I decided to do it just for fun :) and I thought maybe someone else finds it useful as well.

Advanced Mode

Go to your extracted folder "Spotify-To-Youtube-master" and open the file config.json with any text editor and add the values there instead of the web page, use the runLocally.py file instead with the command python runLocally.py

{
    "spotify":
    {
        "client_id": "your_spotify_client_id",
        "client_secret": "your_spotify_client_secret",
        "playlists": ["source_playlist_id_1", "source_playlist_id_2"]
    },
    "google":
    {
        "playlists": ["target_playlist_name_1", "target_playlist_name_2"]
    }
}