After years of using Spotify, I had 100s of playlists that I didn't want to leave behind. I tried some of the "free" websites for cloning playlists from Spotify to YouTube. After hours of trying to use a few of them, none of them really worked, had long queue times or paywall limitations, but then I stumbled upon this super useful tool on GitHub for easily cloning playlists.
https://github.com/sigma67/spotify_to_ytmusic
It took me about 10 minutes to set up, and another 15 minutes of idle time to have all of my playlists and roughly 99% of their songs automatically cloned to YouTube.
The repo's readme contains detailed steps, but in short;
- Clone the repo
- Install Python3 and pipx
- Get an API key from Spotify
- Open your terminal and run
spotify\_to\_ytmusic setup
- Choose
1 and paste in your Spotify API key
- Choose
2, follow these steps to copy your YouTube auth headers and paste them in
- Then run
spotify\_to\_ytmusic all <spotifyuserid> and let it do its thing
How long it takes depends on how many playlists you have and how many songs are in each playlist. For example, it takes about 30 seconds to copy a playlist with 100 songs.
Keep in mind that not all songs on Spotify are available on YouTube, so it's likely going to miss a few.