https://github.com/daydiff/yt-playlist-export
yt-playlist-export is a tiny Python tool that allows to export private YouTube playlists, export YouTube's "Watch later" list and export YouTube "Liked videos".
https://github.com/daydiff/yt-playlist-export
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yt-playlist-export is a tiny Python tool that allows to export private YouTube playlists, export YouTube's "Watch later" list and export YouTube "Liked videos".
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/daydiff/yt-playlist-export
- Owner: daydiff
- License: unlicense
- Created: 2023-04-30T14:41:48.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-28T12:10:20.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-09-19T02:25:02.938Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: hacktoberfest, youtube, youtube-playlist, youtube-playlist-backup, youtube-playlist-export
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 113 KB
- Stars: 42
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# 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
```bash {"id":"01J4HFTRJ1CK76GD127E1R65GX"}
python3 -m pip install yt-playlist-export
```
## Usage
```bash {"id":"01J4HFTRJ1CK76GD127F41SF28"}
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
```bash
yt-playlist-export -f csv -o test.csv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah
```
### Use case: Exporting using cookies from default browser (firefox)
```bash
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](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) documentation.
Check out `--cookies-from-browser` option in yt-dlp documentation to understand how it works.
```bash
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](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10927) and use [this extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc) for Chrome.
```bash
yt-playlist-export --cookies /home/daydiff/cookie.txt -f csv -o test.csv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah
```
## Show case
```bash {"id":"01J4HFTRJ1CK76GD127FGZF1W0"}
yt-playlist-export https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO4kDC0EWkeCnf8PBRk7XDPhrzmAxHLah
```
## Dependencies
yt-playlist-export is using [yt-dlp](https://github.com/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.