Security about ytmusic-deleter

[apastel]

Good question, never hurts to ask. This tool I made uses the ytmusicapi under the hood, which is a Python-based API for doing stuff with a YTMusic library. My ytmusic-deleter just uses that API to do everything, so it follows the same procedure that that API uses, which they've documented here: https://ytmusicapi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/setup/browser.html

Using the request header information that you paste in, the API is able to emulate a logged-in browser. So those headers contain everything the API needs to perform read/write operations on your library (namely, the cookie like you said). The important part here is that this software runs on your computer, and the software doesn't share your request headers with anyone else on the internet, or upload them anywhere or anything. It simply uses them when it makes the request to YTMusic. The .json file stays with you on your computer. Think of it I guess like your car keys. Anyone who has your car keys can potentially steal your car, but as long as you don't give them out to anybody or leave them somewhere, then it's fine. And since this is all open-source software, anyone is welcome to look through the source code to confirm that nobody is stealing your keys.

But good on you for asking, at least.

2nd question, by "clear artists", do you mean delete all the songs and albums of one particular artist?

[apastel]

Well, so the main purpose of the tool is to delete everything. It works by deleting every one of your albums. And if you delete every one of your albums, then all of your artists themselves would be gone. In YTMusic, an "Artist" is really just a collection of albums associated with one particular musician. So yes if you run the delete-uploads and/or delete-library commands, all your artists would be gone too.

[girokarambole1453]

Thank you so much for the support man, I love you! And thank you for this whole project :) Good Luck, Have a nice day!❤

[girokarambole1453]

apastel first of all thank you so much for explaining me the process and making me comfortable :) 2. by "clear artists" I meant when I go to library there is a artists section and when I click it there are some artists I listened looong time ago, that some of their songs in my library somehow. I dont listen to them rn so I want to clear my artists section is it possible?