johnhkoh/ytmusicapi

Unofficial API for YouTube Music

ytmusicapi: 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) and suggestions
• get artist information and releases (songs, videos, albums, singles, related artists)
• get user information (videos, playlists)
• get albums
• get song metadata
• get watch playlists (next songs when you press play/radio/shuffle 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, podcasts, channels
• add/remove library content: rate songs, albums and playlists, subscribe/unsubscribe artists
• get and modify play history

Playlists:

• create and delete playlists
• modify playlists: edit metadata, add/move/remove tracks
• get playlist contents
• get playlist suggestions

Podcasts:

• get podcasts
• get episodes
• get channels
• get episodes playlists

Uploads:

• upload songs and remove them again
• list uploaded songs, artists and albums

Localization:

• all regions are supported (see locations FAQ
• 16 languages are supported (see languages FAQ

If you find something missing or broken, check the FAQ or feel free to create an issue.

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or higher - https://www.python.org

Setup

See the Documentation for detailed instructions

Usage

from ytmusicapi import YTMusic

yt = YTMusic('oauth.json')
playlistId = yt.create_playlist('test', 'test description')
search_results = yt.search('Oasis Wonderwall')
yt.add_playlist_items(playlistId, [search_results[0]['videoId']])

The tests are also a great source of usage examples.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. There are still some features that are not yet implemented. Please, refer to CONTRIBUTING.rst for guidance.