YouTube Music Playlist Restore

Easily restore your YouTube Music Playlists from a Google Takeout.

First-time setup

• Clone this repo
• Install the required modules:

pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

Generate authentication headers

• Go to YouTube Music and ensure you are logged in.
• Open Developer Tools (F12, Ctrl+Shift+I) and select the Network tab
• Find an authenticated POST request. The simplest way is to filter by /browse using the search bar of Developer Tools. It should start with browse?.
• Click on the name of any matching request. In the "Headers" tab, scroll to the section "Request Headers" and copy the line starting with but not including cookie:
• Run setup.py and paste the cookie there. You should be good to go!

Usage

• Open your latest Google Takeout in 7-Zip or WinRAR or whatever program you use and locate the .csv files for your YouTube Music Playlists. Copy them into the "playlists" folder
• Remove any csv files that match playlists that already exist on your account (e.g. "Liked Videos")
• Run ./transfer.py