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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.

You need these before running the script:

• Login toSpotify Developer Dashboard and create a new app to obtain the Client ID and Client Secret.Add these toCLIENT_ID andCLIENT_SECRET in the code.After this, click edit settings of the newly created app and addhttp://localhost/ to Redirect URIs and save.

• Get the Youtube API keyhere and add it toAPI_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.

• TheGoogle 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 toSPOTIFY_USERNAME andYOUTUBE_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

To install Spotipy

pip install spotipy

To install Google API

pip install google-api-python-client

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 afterhttps://www.youtube.com/user/ toCHANNEL_USERNAMES list in the code. In this case, ChillStepNation.

If the URL is like:

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

Add the part afterhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/ (Here, UCkjnVMHy) toCHANNEL_IDS dictonary in the code in the format:

{'channelName' : 'channelID'}

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