YouTube Playlists Management API

• YouTube Playlists Management API
  • Description
  • Main Features
    • Merge, delete, move videos between playlists
  • Getting Started Locally
  • Usage
    • Authorization
  • Contributing
  • License
  • Contact

Description

The YouTube Playlists Management API is a tool designed to help us manage our YouTube playlists more efficiently. It allows to perform bulk edits on playlists via rest calls.

Main Features

Merge, delete, move videos between playlists. We provide rest api for all of that. The problem that we tried to solve originally was - organize videos from Watch Later to different playlists. Unfortunately YT API doesn't provide access to the Watch Later playlist, so we have csv import functionality. Watch Later contents can be exported via Google Takeout and then imported as a manageable playlist to YPM.

Getting Started Locally

We recommend pulling an image in case u want to start locally. Pull and start ghcr.io/leingenm/ypm:main. The app is going to be available at localhost:8080.

Usage

Authorization

We require setting up ur own auth 2.0 app in Google Console.

1. Create a project and finish the basic configuration
2. Enable YouTube Data API v3 for your project
3. Go to the Data access and add https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube > Save
4. Go to the Audience > Add your Google account to Test users
5. Go to Credentials > Click Create credentials > OAuth client ID
6. Select Web application in the Application type dropdown
7. We recommend adding the following to Authorised JavaScript origins

• http://localhost
• https://ypmngr.xyz

8. We recommend adding the following to Authorised redirect URIs

• http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/oauth2-redirect.html
• https://ypmngr.xyz/swagger-ui/oauth2-redirect.html
• https://oauth.pstmn.io/v1/callback

Use ur OAuth 2.0 Client client_id and client_secret in our swagger (don't forget to select the scope checkbox). First token exchange will require quite a few authorization screen clicks which is connected with authorizing ur Google Console app to ur YT account data.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community. Please read our Contributing Guide for more information on how to contribute to our project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contact

If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us or create an issue or bug request in Issues.