yt-playlist-export

yt-playlist-export is a tool that allows to export YouTube playlists, export YouTube "Watch later" list and export YouTube "Liked videos". It supports exporting to JSON and CSV formats.

Installation

python3 -m pip install yt-playlist-export

Usage

yt-playlist-export -h
usage: yt-playlist-export [-h] [--browser BROWSER] [--cookies COOKIES] [-f {csv,json}] [-o OUTPUT] [-v] playlist [playlist ...]

yt-playlist-export exports YouTube playlists to JSON or CSV

positional arguments:
  playlist              playlist URL

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --browser BROWSER     browser where you logged in to YouTube
  --cookies COOKIES     absolute path to a Netscape formatted cookie file
  -f {csv,json}, --format {csv,json}
                        output's format
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        filename to store output, by default it's printed to stdout
  -v, --verbose         verbose

Use case: Exporting public playlist

yt-playlist-export -f csv -o test.csv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah

Use case: Exporting using cookies from default browser (firefox)

yt-playlist-export -f csv -o test.csv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah

Use case: Exporting using Chrome browser

At the moment of writing this supported browsers are: firefox, safari, brave, chrome, chromium, edge, opera, vivaldi, whale.

For the --browser agrument one can also pass BROWSER[+KEYRING][:PROFILE][::CONTAINER] as it's described in yt-dlp documentation. Check out --cookies-from-browser option in yt-dlp documentation to understand how it works.

yt-playlist-export --browser chrome -f csv -o test.csv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah

Use case: Exporting using cookie file

The cookie file must be in a Netscape format. You can follow this guide and use this extension for Chrome.

yt-playlist-export --cookies /home/daydiff/cookie.txt -f csv -o test.csv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah

Show case

yt-playlist-export https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah

Dependencies

yt-playlist-export is using yt-dlp under the hood.

Keywords

YouTube export playlist. YouTube export Watch later list. YouTube export liked videos. YouTube export playlist to CSV. YouTube export playlist to JSON. YouTube export private playlist.