ytmusicapi: Unofficial API for YouTube Music ############################################

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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

Features

| Browsing:

• search (including all filters)
• get artist information and releases (songs, videos, albums, singles, related artists)
• 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

| Exploring music:

• get moods and genres playlists
• get latest charts (globally and per country)

| 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

.. code-block:: python

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 <https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/blob/master/tests/test.py>_ are also a great source of usage examples.

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Requirements

• Python 3.6 or higher - https://www.python.org

Setup and Usage

See the Documentation <https://ytmusicapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html>_ for detailed instructions

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. There are still some features that are not yet implemented. Please, refer to CONTRIBUTING.rst <https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>_ for guidance.