ytmusicapi 0.14.1

Unofficial API for YouTube Music

ytmusicapi is a Python 3 library to send requests to the YouTube Music API. It emulates YouTube Music web client requests using the user’s cookie data for authentication.

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)

• get song lyrics

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

• Python 3.5 or higher - https://www.python.org

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.