YouTube Playlist Helper

A simple command line tool for manipulating YouTube playlists. Its purpose is to provide missing playlist operations such as sorting and randomizing.

Prerequisites

Create a new Google Cloud Platform project
- The name does not matter
Add the YouTube Data API v3
Configure the OAuth consent screen
- Set Publishing status to In production
- Set User type to External
- These settings may not be necessary, but it does make it easier
Add OAuth 2.0 Client IDs credentials
- Download the client_secret_{client_id}.json file
- Move and rename the client secret file as {script_location}/secrets/client_secret.json
Run the script
Create a new user
- Name is just a unique identifier for multiple stored creds in the secrets/users.json file
- Authorize and all that
Cache your playlists
Select an action(s)
Update your playlist(s)
Hitting Enter on an empty prompt returns you to the previous prompt or exits