🎬 yt-easy-bulk-edit

🚀 A command-line tool to fetch, manage, and bulk-edit YouTube playlists and videos using the YouTube Data API v3.

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This project is 🚧 Under Development

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🎯 Project Goal

This tool automates YouTube playlist management by allowing users to:

• Fetch & list playlists
• Retrieve videos from selected playlists
• (Upcoming) Bulk edit video titles, descriptions, privacy settings, etc.

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🛠 Features

✅ Authenticate with YouTube API (OAuth 2.0)
✅ Fetch & List Playlists → list-playlist-ids.py
✅ Fetch & Save Videos from Playlists → list-playlist-videos.py
⏳ (Upcoming) Bulk Edit Videos → Modify titles, descriptions, privacy settings

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⚙️ Tools & Technologies Used

This project utilizes the following tools and technologies:

• Programming Language: Python 3
• YouTube Data API v3 (for interacting with YouTube)
• Google Cloud Console (for API & OAuth setup)
• OAuth 2.0 Authentication (for secure API access)
• Google API Client (googleapiclient)
• pip (for managing Python dependencies)
• Git & GitHub (for version control & collaboration)
• Ubuntu / WSL (for development environment)
• Shell/CLI (for executing scripts)

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🚀 Project Setup

Step 1: Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/0xKatie/yt-easy-bulk-edit.git
cd yt-easy-bulk-edit

Step 2: Install Dependencies

To run the scripts, you need to install the required Python packages.

Run the following command in your terminal:

pip install --upgrade google-auth google-auth-oauthlib google-auth-httplib2 google-api-python-client

What This Does:

• google-auth → Handles authentication with Google's APIs.
• google-auth-oauthlib → Manages OAuth 2.0 flow for user authentication.
• google-auth-httplib2 → Supports authentication over HTTP.
• google-api-python-client → Provides access to the YouTube Data API v3.

Verify Installation

After installation, you can check if the packages were installed correctly by running:

pip list | grep google

If the packages are installed, you should see versions listed next to each.

Step 3: Set Up YouTube API Credentials

To interact with the YouTube Data API, you need to set up OAuth 2.0 authentication in Google Cloud Console.

1️⃣ Enable YouTube Data API v3

1. Go to Google Cloud Console
2. Create a new project (or select an existing one).
3. Navigate to APIs & Services → Library.
4. Search for YouTube Data API v3 and click Enable.

2️⃣ Create OAuth 2.0 Credentials

1. Go to APIs & Services → Credentials.
2. Click Create Credentials → OAuth Client ID.
3. Select "Desktop App" as the application type.
4. Click Create and Download JSON (this file is needed for authentication).

3️⃣ Move the client_secrets.json File

• Rename the downloaded file to client_secrets.json (if it has a long name).
• Move it into your project folder:

mv ~/Downloads/client_secrets.json ~/yt-easy-bulk-edit/