- Python - version 3.8 or higher
Clone the project into your local machine. To start working with application, open terminal in the project's root folder and type:
python setup.py install
This command will install all required dependencies.
Before starting, you will also have to provide header file to authenticate api requests to your YouTubeMusic account. Unfortunately, at least for now, it's a bit complicated.
Follow instruction from ytmusicapi's documentation to create headers_auth.json and copy it to the project's root directory. That file will contain a header with a cookie and will be used to authenticate all api requests with your YTMusic account.
The cookie should not expire, unless you will manually log out of web client.
- pipenv - install with
pip install pipenv
Alternatively you can work with application in isolated virtual environment. It's really helpful if you are working with many python apps and each one of them requires different libraries with conflicting versions. To create virtual environment you can use pipenv. Open terminal in the project's root folder and type:
pipenv install -e .
Then whenever you'd like to work with application, open shell with activated virtual environment, by typing:
pipenv shell
To export full content of your YTMusic library as well as all your playlists run from project's root folder:
ytmlt-export
To create changelog run from project's root folder:
ytmlt-changelog
With default behaviour, the last two export files from ytmlt-export will be used as previous and current.
Run from project's root folder:
python -m ytmusiclibtracker
Python scripts can be freezed and delivered as executable. It can be created using cx_freeze.
python create_exe.py build
In build directory there will be a folder containing libs and ytmusiclibtracker.exe.
In order to test with local ytmusicapi version run:
pip uninstall ytmusicapi
pip install ytmusicapi path/to/local/ytmusicapi