eaardal / tubeify

Tubeify

Scrapes track lists in YouTube video descriptions and adds the songs to a Spotify playlist if matches are found. Made with compilation videos in mind.

Example

The video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EopQtSVZQY has a video description that contains the track list:

0:00 Seven Lions, Last Heroes & HALIENE - Don't Wanna Fall
3:22 Nurko feat. RØRY - Better of Lonely
7:26 Soar & Nytrix - Illuminate
11:53 Last Heroes - Love Like Us (feat. RUNN)
15:23 ADVENT - Last Mistake (feat. Akacia)
18:28 Yetep & RUNN - Alright
21:25 NIKAI - Rain Inside (feat. Nomeli)
24:45 Sabai - Memories (feat. Claire Ridgely)
27:29 Seven Lions - Only Now (Feat. Tyler Graves) [MitiS Remix]

This app will try to find a track list such as this and parse it into a list of artist(s) and song names. It will then try to search Spotify for the scraped tracks and if it finds a match, add the tracks to the provided Spotify playlist.

Setup

YouTube Authentication

• Create or open an existing Google Cloud project you own.
• Search for YouTube Data API v3 (it's under API & Services) and click the Enable button.
• Click the Manage button that replaced the Enable button if the page did not redirect you automatically.
• You should be on an overview dashboard page for YouTube Data API v3. Click the Credentials item on the left side menu.
• Click + Create Credentials in the top menu and select API Key. Copy the API key.
• Paste in the API key in a .env file for this project, or an environment variable named YOUTUBE_API_KEY. See below.

Spotify Authentication

• Log in to the Spotify Developer Dashboard: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/
• Create a new app
• Copy the Client ID and paste it into your .env file (see below).
• Click the Show Client Secret button and copy & paste it into the .env file.
• Click the Edit Settings button and under Redirect URIs, add http://localhost:8080

Local Environment

• Create a .env file

YOUTUBE_API_KEY=your_key
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_id
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_secret

• Optional: Create a Makefile for convenience:

scrape:
	go run ./main.go \
		-youtube-video-id your_video_id \
		-spotify-playlist-id your_playlist_id

Running

• With the environment variables set up, run the app with go run main.go or make scrape

Resources

Spotify

• Spotify Golang SDK
• Spotify Developer Dashboard

YouTube

• YouTube API Reference: list call
• YouTube API Sample Requests
• YouTube API Code Samples