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[GH-ISSUE #93] Export playlists to text formats #53

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opened 2026-02-28 14:46:39 +03:00 by kerem · 7 comments

kerem commented

2026-02-28 14:46:39 +03:00

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Originally created by @mrcnski on GitHub (Oct 20, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui/issues/93

I'd like to be able to save entire playlists with each song in Title - Artist format, something I'm not able to do in Spotify. Hopefully this isn't against their TOS.

I see this requiring a new screen where the user can pick from different output formats (the default can be Spotify's own format, which is a bunch of links to open.spotify.com for each track).

I would love to help out with this myself.

Originally created by @mrcnski on GitHub (Oct 20, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui/issues/93 I'd like to be able to save entire playlists with each song in `Title - Artist` format, something I'm not able to do in Spotify. Hopefully this isn't against their TOS. I see this requiring a new screen where the user can pick from different output formats (the default can be Spotify's own format, which is a bunch of links to open.spotify.com for each track). I would love to help out with this myself.

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2026-02-28 14:46:39 +03:00

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@Rigellute commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2019):

Hmm... not sure I quite understand the feature. Is this different from "following" a playlist and then viewing that playlists tracks?

To save all the tracks in a playlist would be a bit tricky as spotify has a limit of 50 tracks per request - doable though.

@Rigellute commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2019): Hmm... not sure I quite understand the feature. Is this different from "following" a playlist and then viewing that playlists tracks? To save all the tracks in a playlist would be a bit tricky as spotify has a limit of 50 tracks per request - doable though.

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2026-02-28 14:46:39 +03:00

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@mrcnski commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2019):

Ah my bad, didn't explain it well.

I just want to be able to get a list of all the songs in a playlist, in various textual formats - for importing into Apple Music etc., or just for safekeeping in the eventuality that Spotify disappears and I lose half a decade of saved songs. So far I've not been able to figure out how to do this in Spotify -- there are a bunch of (closed-source) third-party programs that do this, but I don't trust any of them.

@mrcnski commented on GitHub (Oct 22, 2019): Ah my bad, didn't explain it well. I just want to be able to **get a list of all the songs in a playlist, in various textual formats** - for importing into Apple Music etc., or just for safekeeping in the eventuality that Spotify disappears and I lose half a decade of saved songs. So far I've not been able to figure out how to do this in Spotify -- there are a bunch of (closed-source) third-party programs that do this, but I don't trust any of them.

kerem commented

2026-02-28 14:46:40 +03:00

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@Rigellute commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019):

Ah I see! Thanks for the clarification.

Will give this some thought.

@Rigellute commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019): Ah I see! Thanks for the clarification. Will give this some thought.

kerem commented

2026-02-28 14:46:40 +03:00

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@alichtman commented on GitHub (Oct 24, 2019):

@m-cat This may be what you're looking for: https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup

Not sure this really falls within the scope of this project.

@alichtman commented on GitHub (Oct 24, 2019): @m-cat This may be what you're looking for: https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup Not sure this really falls within the scope of this project.

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@mrcnski commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2019):

Thanks, a few problems with that though:

It didn't save my "Liked Songs", which is what I'm interested in getting.
Last commit 5 years ago...?
Running this Python script is not very user-friendly.
I don't want all my playlists. The way I see it, with spotify-tui I would be able to open a playlist of my choice, where I would have the option to bring up an export dialog and choose a format.
And, it seems better to have one integrated tool that does this rather than two separate tools, no? You would have to authenticate with Spotify twice.

@mrcnski commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2019): Thanks, a few problems with that though: 1. It didn't save my "Liked Songs", which is what I'm interested in getting. 2. Last commit 5 years ago...? 3. Running this Python script is not very user-friendly. 4. I don't want *all* my playlists. The way I see it, with spotify-tui I would be able to open a playlist of my choice, where I would have the option to bring up an export dialog and choose a format. 5. And, it seems better to have one integrated tool that does this rather than two separate tools, no? You would have to authenticate with Spotify twice.

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@jessebett commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2019):

I would also be interested in this, and spotify-backup isn't great for the reasons @m-cat outlined.

@alichtman your concern that this doesn't fall in the scope of this project is valid. However, it is a standard feature of cli tools to provide a way to pipe text to standard output. This would be sufficient and valuable feature.

It doesn't need to be specific to Playlists. I would appreciate a standard implementation that pipes the content of the current view to standard output. This could occupy the | keyboard shortcut.

In the case of playlists or other views where the number of elements is too large to fit into the view and requires (currently) ctrl-d/u scrolling. This is related to #11, but I would expect the | to also accumulate the content as though I manually scrolled through to the bottom.

If the worry is that someone might try to do this in a way that would over-ping the API, e.g. piping Liked Songs, then possibly set a default limit which can be overridden in the user's config?

@jessebett commented on GitHub (Oct 25, 2019): I would also be interested in this, and `spotify-backup` isn't great for the reasons @m-cat outlined. @alichtman your concern that this doesn't fall in the scope of this project is valid. However, it is a standard feature of cli tools to provide a way to pipe text to standard output. This would be sufficient and valuable feature. It doesn't need to be specific to `Playlists`. I would appreciate a standard implementation that pipes the content of the current view to standard output. This could occupy the `|` keyboard shortcut. In the case of playlists or other views where the number of elements is too large to fit into the view and requires (currently) `ctrl-d/u` scrolling. This is related to #11, but I would expect the `|` to also accumulate the content as though I manually scrolled through to the bottom. If the worry is that someone might try to do this in a way that would over-ping the API, e.g. piping `Liked Songs`, then possibly set a default limit which can be overridden in the user's config?

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@alichtman commented on GitHub (Oct 26, 2019):

@alichtman your concern that this doesn't fall in the scope of this project is valid. However, it is a standard feature of cli tools to provide a way to pipe text to standard output. This would be sufficient and valuable feature.

Yeah, actually, agreed. Disregard my earlier comment.

@m-cat Good points.

@alichtman commented on GitHub (Oct 26, 2019): > @alichtman your concern that this doesn't fall in the scope of this project is valid. However, it is a standard feature of cli tools to provide a way to pipe text to standard output. This would be sufficient and valuable feature. Yeah, actually, agreed. Disregard my earlier comment. @m-cat Good points.