ytm-fetcher 0.1.2

Small wrapper package to interface with YouTube Music

YTM Fetcher

A Python-based tool for interacting with YouTube Music, allowing users to fetch, download, and play music tracks.

Features

• Fetch song and playlist information from YouTube Music (YTM)
• Save songs locally in WAV or MP3 formats
• Playback full songs or samples
• Models to create and modify playlists, then push them to YTM

Requirements

• yt-dlp - Used for saving music locally
• ytmusicapi - Allows interaction with YTM API
• playsound - Allows local playback within Python
• ffmpeg executable - For downloads and sampling
• Cookie file and browser headers (see Authentication)

Installation

• Either install from PyPI or place the ytm_fetcher folder in your project directory.
• Follow the steps under Authentication to unlock most of the package's functionality.

Authentication

• Folder
  • Create a folder 'auth' in your project directory.
• Cookies
  • Export browser cookies for YTM to 'cookies.txt' and place the file in the auth folder.
  • If you are unsure of how to do this, search your browser webstore for extensions designed to export cookies, or search 'export browser cookies' in your engine of choice.
• Browser Headers
  • Export raw headers for YTM to 'headers.txt' and place the file in the auth folder.
  • Step-by-step:
    1. Sign in to YouTube Music on your desired account
    2. Navigate to music.youtube.com & open developer tools (F12)
    3. Navigate to the 'Network' tab
    4. Reload the page to generate new requests
    5. Find a POST request beginning with browse? and type json
    6. Under 'Headers', find 'Request Headers'
    7. Copy the raw headers to a file headers.txt and place this in your auth folder

Usage

# TODO: Usage examples
print("Hello world")