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Question: is there a way to automate the copy/paste of playlists?

Open loicginoux opened this issue 10 years ago • 1 comments

Hi, First thank you for your tool, really useful to have a backup of my playlists! I just have a question: Do you know if there is a faster way to copy paste the track URIs into the files? I have quite a lot of playlists and going into each of them, copy/pasting into a file is a bit painful. I didn't find a way to automate this task... Do you think this is possible? I tried to search into /Applications/<USER>/spotify.app/Contents to see if I could find my playlists saved somewhere but I didn't find anything. Thanks. Good work.

loicginoux avatar Apr 18 '14 14:04 loicginoux

I know this is an old issue but I had the same question so I started looking into what it would entail, thinking that I could do a pull request if I figured it out.

The problem is that using the Spotify API to retrieve playlist data requires user authentication, which would add a lot of complexity to this script. Right now it's just using the tracks API which is unauthenticated. I don't really know why it requires auth to see playlists, but unfortunately it does.

cassdeckard avatar Aug 12 '16 12:08 cassdeckard