The idea for this project is to be able to download informations regarding a given YouTube playlist and to keep trace of all the tracks within (it happens that due to copyright, some videos are deleted). As a music lover, it's always disapointing to see that some tracks got lost but have no way to find which ones.
To keep track of the tracks, a playlist file is created with all basics informations regarding every video. This file is a big list that can only be appended at each update, so no track are losts anymore.
First idea was to investigate the playlist and produce some stats such as "most frequent artist" or "most frequent YouTube channel".
Secondary functions came quite naturally : downloading the playlist and updating the local "windows media player" playlist
If you want to use it for yourself, you'll need a key for the YouTube api. See how to do this here. Save this key in ./secrets/key.txt (make sure there is no newline at the end of the file) Two additional libraries are required :
- BeautifulSoup
- pytube
pip install -r requirements.txt
This program can be used with one-liner command arguments as well as through a console interface.
The later is self-explanatory, let's look at the one-liners.
py - 3 main.py update <your playlist id> (dl)
py -3 main.py stats <your_playlist_file.txt>
Two positional arguments are accepted and mandatory :
- update
- With update, you need to provide a YouTube playlist id and if you want to download this playlist (highest audio stream available, .webm format) add the "dl" argument at the end
- stats
- With stats, you need to provide the path (absolute or relative) to a playlist file (.txt) previously created in "userdata"