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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 :py:func:`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 :doc:`Usage <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:

.. literalinclude:: ../../headers_auth.json.example
  :language: JSON