Youtube playlist organizer

The videos I like end up falling into limbo. Either I can no longer find them due to the volume, or some end up being deleted. I wanted to make a backup of this list and organize it somehow.

To my surprise, YouTube does not have an easy way to make this backup, let alone organize it. I decided to create a script using the YouTube API to continuously back up this information into a spreadsheet and later attempt to organize it into different playlists.

The script generates a .csv spreadsheet with the following fields:

• title: video title.
• channelTitle: channel name.
• channelId: channel ID.
• description: video description. NOTE: videos with auto-generated descriptions do not return them.
• likedTime: date and time the user "liked" the content.
• videoLink: full video URL.
• videoId: video ID.

By clicking the button below, you will be prompted for permission to access your Youtube account. With this permission, I will be able to capture the data from your liked videos playlist. The generated .csv file and your access token (provided to me by Google) are deleted from the server within 24 hours.

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Authorize access

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Next steps:

• Asynchronous processing, especially useful for users with many videos. For this, I will need to save some user data and have greater security controls.
• Incremental backup, to avoid fetching all videos if the user already has made a backup.
• Organization of videos into categories based on title, channel, and description.
• Creation and updating of playlists according to the previous step.
• Allow access to any Google user (currently only available for test users).