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7/22/2026
Automate Spotify and YouTube Playlists - Chapter 3: Setting Up YouTube

Automate Spotify and YouTube Playlists - Chapter 3: Setting Up YouTube

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This tutorial walks through obtaining a YouTube Data API key from Google Cloud Console and extracting a playlist ID from a YouTube URL — the two pieces needed to mirror YouTube playlists to Spotify. It covers project creation, API enabling, credential generation, and key restriction for security. Combined with Spotify credentials from the previous chapter, you now have all six configuration values needed for the automation script.

  • •Create a Google Cloud project and enable YouTube Data API v3
  • •Generate and restrict an API key to YouTube only
  • •Extract playlist ID from YouTube URL; playlist must be public or unlisted

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