{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/4"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"ytmusicapi lets you programmatically interact with YouTube Music by sending authenticated requests to its API, enabling you to search, browse, manage playlists, and control your library.","skillfed_tags":["music-api","youtube-integration","automation"],"use_cases":["Automate playlist creation and management by searching for songs and adding them programmatically.","Build a music discovery tool that retrieves charts, moods, and artist information across regions.","Sync or backup your YouTube Music library contents (playlists, songs, uploads) to external storage.","Create a bot or script that modifies your play history or rates songs based on custom logic.","Integrate YouTube Music data into a personal music application or dashboard."],"what_it_does":"ytmusicapi is an unofficial Python library that lets you interact with YouTube Music programmatically by emulating web client requests using your account credentials. It wraps the YouTube Music API to provide a Python interface for common tasks like searching, browsing artist information, managing playlists, uploading songs, and accessing your library.\n\nThe library handles authentication through cookie or OAuth data and supports a wide range of operations: searching with filters, retrieving song metadata and lyrics, managing playlists and library content, accessing charts and mood playlists, and working with podcasts and uploads. It supports multiple languages and regions, making it useful for building automation tools, music discovery scripts, or integrations that need programmatic access to YouTube Music.","worth_installing":"Yes. ytmusicapi is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, uses a permissive MIT license, and solves a clear problem\u2014programmatic access to YouTube Music. It's well-suited for automation and integration tasks. The main caveat is that it's unofficial and depends on YouTube Music's internal API, so changes on YouTube's side could break functionality without notice."},"id":"ytmusicapi","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/ytmusicapi","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/ytmusicapi.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/ytmusicapi/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-08-08","license_spdx":"MIT","license_treatment":"permissive","name":"ytmusicapi","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Unofficial API for YouTube Music"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":330939,"position":7526,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.12.2"}