YoutubeToSpotify

A Python script to fetch tracks of music channels on Youtube, find them on Spotify and add them to a playlist. The video titles from Youtube are filtered and then searched on Spotify for near perfect results. A CSV file keeps track of the tracks that are added to the Spotify playlist so the script can be executed when required.

Getting Started

You need these before running the script:

• Login to Spotify Developer Dashboard and create a new app to obtain the Client ID and Client Secret. Add these to CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET in the code. After this, click edit settings of the newly created app and add http://localhost/ to Redirect URIs and save.

• Get the Youtube API key here and add it to API_KEY in the code.

• Spotipy : Spotipy is a lightweight Python library for the Spotify Web API. With Spotipy you get full access to all of the music data provided by the Spotify platform.

• The Google APIs Client Library for Python for making requests to Youtube

• Create a new Spotify Playlist and name it anything you want. Get your spotify username and the playlist id. Copy the username and playlist ID and add them to SPOTIFY_USERNAME and YOUTUBE_PLAYLIST_ID in the code respectively.

Right click on the playlist in Spotify and go to Share > Copy Spotify URI. 

You will receive a URI like this:

spotify:user:john:playlist:70WcLyhxyzRuSGf678MyPd

Installing

To install Spotipy

pip install spotipy

To install Google API

pip install google-api-python-client

Adding channels

To add channels from Youtube, simply access a channel page and examine the URL. If it is like:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChillStepNation

Just add the part after https://www.youtube.com/user/ to CHANNEL_USERNAMES list in the code. In this case, ChillStepNation.

If the URL is like:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkjnVMHy 

Add the part after https://www.youtube.com/channel/ (Here, UCkjnVMHy) to CHANNEL_IDS dictonary in the code in the format:

{'channelName' : 'channelID'}

To change the number of search results for each channel change MAX_RESULT in the code. Default is 20.