Spotify to YouTube

You give a Spotify song, you get a YouTube song.

Overview

From a Spotify track URI (or just the ID, or a whole Spotify API track object if you already have one handy), do a YouTube Music search and return my uneducated guess of what would be the best match amongst the results (see code for details).

I might tweak that logic without warning.

Installation

Note that this package depends on an authenticated instance of spotify-web-api-node that you need to inject.

npm install spotify-to-youtube spotify-web-api-node

Usage

const SpotifyToYoutube = require('spotify-to-youtube')
const SpotifyWebApi = require('spotify-web-api-node')

async function main () {
  const spotifyApi = new SpotifyWebApi({
    clientId: '...',
    clientSecret: '...'
  })

  const credsResponse = await spotifyApi.clientCredentialsGrant()

  spotifyApi.setAccessToken(credsResponse.body['access_token'])

  const spotifyToYoutube = SpotifyToYoutube(spotifyApi)

  const id = await spotifyToYoutube('spotify:track:3djNBlI7xOggg7pnsOLaNm')
  console.log(id) // J7_bMdYfSws
}

main()

You could also pass just the track ID instead of the URI:

const id = await spotifyToYoutube('3djNBlI7xOggg7pnsOLaNm')
console.log(id) // J7_bMdYfSws

Or even the whole track object as returned by the Spotify API, then the function won't need to make any call to the Spotify API.

Also if you pass an array, it'll just work, and you'll get an array back.

Development

To run the tests, you need to configure your Spotify cookie in config.test.json.

cp config.test.sample.json config.test.json

Then edit config.test.json to add your spDcCookie.

You can now run tests with:

npm test

Note: the tests hit the live servers, requests are not mocked. This means they're going to fail if YouTube returns different results, and will need to be updated accordingly.

For example it seems that YouTube Music likes to re-upload songs on the same channel with the same title but a different ID. Go figure out why. 🤷