YouTube likes to periodically delete videos that are on my favorites list:
But they refuse to tell me what they were so I can go find another copy.
I would like a way to export my YouTube playlists, so that I can periodically diff them, and manually find other copies of the deleted songs.
How can I export my playlists (or a playlist) from YouTube?
Best Answer
As far as I am aware, there's no built in way to do this on Youtube.
You could of course use the Youtube API to easily get all of your playlists in xml using the following:
Example: https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/oisinorion/playlists?v=2
That xml file will have the unique IDs for each of your playlists, which you can then use to get the details for each playlist, including Video URLs and titles. The following API call will again give you an xml file:
Example: https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/D5F03C2BE1AA3E7E?v=2
Working with those XML files manually would be a nightmare however. It would be best to create a small web app (if you know a bit of web programming) to pull out and present the relevant info from those XML files.
You can read more about the API here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_playlists