Setup authentication from Chrome/Chromium browsers

[xplorr]

Setup authentication from Chrome/Chromium browsers

[akraus53]

Update: I improved the Firefox instructions.

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[akraus53]

Why don't you just download Firefox?

[xplorr]

Thx for the update!
I am currently translating my WinaYo toolkit from Google Music to Youtube Music using ytmusicapi.
(WinaYo is a command line toolkit to convert and import/sync WinAmp playlists (m3u8) to Youtube Music playLists (csv) using Python and ytmusicapi).
So far the authentication method I described above (using Chrome) seems to work.

[akraus53]

Look here for an example of what the headers_auth file looks like.
Fill in what you need (the x-google-user-thingi and the cookie) and I hope you'll be set. Easiest is definitely downloading firefox though.

[xplorr]

Thx.
Already found a method:
• open music.youtube.com in Chrome
• open dev tools (ctrl-shift-i)
• do some action in main page
• goto network tab
• filter on "json"
• look in "header" tab for string "cookie" and copy data
• open headers_auth.json and copy cookie data to "cookie"

[akraus53]

You probably also need the "X-Goog-Visitor-Id" dont you?

[akraus53]

If you're sure your way works, then I'd recomend you add to the reference (I'm happy to add a few lines/comments too because i thought it was kinda hard to understand what to do).

https://github.com/sigma67/ytmusicapi/blob/master/docs/source/setup.rst

When this issue is closed nobody will know how to do it

[sigma67]

You probably also need the "X-Goog-Visitor-Id" dont you?

Only the cookie is required since e96c4f1. Even though I favor Firefox, I'll add instructions for Chromium-based browsers due to their huge market share.

[xplorr]

The cookie is enough for me, I leave all the other parms in headers_auth.json default.
ps. VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE is in the cookie. Is that what you refer to by "X-Goog-Visitor-Id"?

I use these calls:
YTMusic.get_library_playlists()
YTMusic.get_library_upload_songs()
YTMusic.get_playlist()
YTMusic.create_playlist()
YTMusic.delete_playlist()
YTMusic.edit_playlist()
YTMusic.add_playlist_items()
YTMusic.upload_song()

All work OK, except YTMusic.upload_song() doesn't seem to work. I get STATUS_SUCCEEDED, but I can't find the uploaded song when searching for it.