Setup

Installation

pip install ytmusicapi

Authenticated requests

To run authenticated requests you need to set up you need to copy your request headers from a POST request in your YTMusic Web Client. To do so, follow these steps:

• Open https://music.youtube.com in Firefox
• Go to the developer tools (Ctrl-Shift-I) and find an authenticated POST request. You can filter for /browse to easily find a suitable request.
• Copy the request headers (right click > copy > copy request headers)

Now call YTMusic.setup() with the parameter filepath=headers_auth.json and paste the request headers to the terminal input. If you don’t want terminal interaction you can pass the request headers with the headers_raw parameter.

The function returns a JSON string with the credentials needed for Usage. Alternatively, if you passed the filepath parameter as described above, a file called headers_auth.json will be created in the current directory, which you can pass to YTMusic() for authentication.

These credentials remain valid as long as your YTMusic browser session is valid (about 2 years unless you log out).

Manual file creation

Alternatively, you can paste the cookie to headers_auth.json below and create your own file:

{
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0",
    "Accept": "*/*",
    "Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "X-Goog-AuthUser": "0",
    "x-origin": "https://music.youtube.com",
    "Cookie" : "PASTE_COOKIE"
}