chrrel / youtube-playlist-exporter

This is a python tool for exporting playlists from your YouTube account. It allows to import playlist data from CSV files and exports all playlists to a simple, browsable HTML web page.

YouTube Playlist Exporter

This is a python tool for exporting playlists from your YouTube account. It allows to import playlist data from CSV files and exports all playlists to a simple, browsable HTML web page as well as a JSON file.

YouTube data exported via Google Takeout does not contain much information on the videos within a playlist. Therefore, this tool uses the Invidious REST API to retrieve additional data on each video (e.g. title, duration and thumbnail) and saves this locally. This allows to keep an easy-to-use copy of your YouTube playlist even if you delete your YouTube account. Note that the videos are not downloaded.

Usage

1. Download your YouTube data using Google Takeout. This will yield a zip file containing CSV files, one for each playlist.
2. Supply all configuration values, especially the path to your CSV files, in config.cfg.
3. Execute the script by running python3 main.py.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

This project is not endorsed or certified by YouTube / Google LLC.

youtube-playlist-exporter's Issues

bug minus ID glitch

Hi chrrel, thank you for sharing this wonderful tool. I've just backed up my 150 playlists in 2 batches.
Me reporting some bug, seems like video IDs starting with minus sign are not processed correctly, script is putting space to the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UGmleOV42Y

YT export changes :)

Guten Tag Christian,
YT has changed data structure, now playlist metadata is not in CSV file and all playlists metadata are in separate csv file named "playlists.csv".

Here is my quick messy patch, just to make it work, I don't code in py:
utils.py, replace function get_playlist_from_csv

def get_playlist_from_csv(csv_file_name: str) -> dict:
with open(csv_file_name, encoding="utf-8", newline="") as csvfile:
data = csvfile.readlines()
playlist_content_data = list(csv.reader(data[1:], delimiter=","))
title = csv_file_name.replace("-videos.csv", "")
title = title.replace("../data/playlists\", "")
id = title.replace(" ", "")

    playlist = {
        "id": id,
        "channel_id": "",
        "time_updated": "",
        "time_created": "",
        "title": title,
        "description": "",
        "visibility": "",
        "videos": [{"id": video[0], "time_added": video[1]} for video in playlist_content_data if len(video) > 1],
    }
    return playlist