spotify2ytmusic 0.8.1

Copy Spotify playlists to YTMusic/YouTube Music

Tools for moving from Spotify to YTMusic

Overview

This is a set of scripts for copying "liked" songs and playlists from Spotify to YTMusic.

Getting Started

Install ytmusicapi

pip install ytmusicapi

Login to YTMusic

ytmusicapi oauth

This will give you a URL, visit that URL and authorize the application. When you are done with the import you can remove the authorization for this app.

This will write a file "oauth.json". Keep this file secret while the app is authorized. This file includes a logged in session token.

Backup Your Spotify Playlists

Download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caseychu/spotify-backup/master/spotify-backup.py.

Run spotify-backup.py and it will help you authorize access to your spotify account.

Run: python3 spotify-backup.py playlists.json --dump=liked,playlists --format=json

This will save your playlists and liked songs into the file "playlists.json".

Import Your Liked Songs

Run: python3 load_liked

It will go through your Spotify liked songs, and like them on YTMusic. It will display the song from spotify and then the song that it found on YTMusic that it is liking. I've spot-checked my songs and it seems to be doing a good job of matching YTMusic songs with Spotify. So far I haven't seen a single failure across a couple thousand songs, but more esoteric titles it may have issues with.

List Your Playlists

Run python3 list_playlists

This will list the playlists you have on both Spotify and YTMusic. You will need to individually copy them. Find the "playlist id" (the first column) of the Spotify playlist, and of the YTMusic playlist, and then run:

python3 copy_playlist <SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_ID> <YTMUSIC_PLAYLIST_ID>

If you need to create a playlist, run:

python3 create_playlist "<PLAYLIST_NAME>"

Re-running "copy_playlist" or "load_liked" in the event that it fails should be safe, it will not duplicate entries on the playlist.

FAQ

• How does the lookup algorithm work?

  Given the Spotify track information, it does a lookup for the album by the same artist on YTMusic, then looks at the first 3 hits looking for a track with exactly the same name. In the event that it can't find that exact track, it then does a search of songs for the track name by the same artist and simply returns the first hit.

  The idea is that finding the album and artist and then looking for the exact track match will be more likely to be accurate than searching for the song and artist and relying on the YTMusic algorithm to figure things out, especially for short tracks that might be have many contradictory hits like "Survival by Yes".

• My copy is failing with repeated "ERROR: (Retrying) Server returned HTTP 400: Bad Request".

  Try running with "--track-sleep=3" argument to do a 3 second sleep between tracks. This will take much longer, but may succeed where faster rates have failed.

License

Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal