beets-youtube

A plugin for beets to use YouTube as a metadata source.

Installation

Install the plugin using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/arsaboo/beets-youtube.git

Then, configure the plugin in your config.yaml file.

Configuration

Add YouTube to your list of enabled plugins.

plugins: youtube

This plugin relies on OAuth authentication as detailed here and expects the oauth.json file in the beets config folder. The easiest way to make it work is to generate the oauth.json outside the plugin and just paste the json file in the beets folder. You can configure fields to be excluded from being updated using the following config (only these fields can be excluded):

youtube:
    exclude_fields:
        - cover_art_url

Features

The following features are implemented in youtube:

• beet ytupdate: allows you to get the current view count of the videos.