Quick and dirty script to check for updates in youtube playlists, if new ones are found it sends a Windows Toast notification. Designed to be run as a Scheduled Task as to not deplete all daily youtube API tokens.
Only tested on:
Windows 10
Python 3.11.0
Clone the repo and cd into it
git clone https://github.com/natsukashiixo/playlist-notifs.git; cd playlist-notifs
Optional: Set up venv
python -m venv venv
Install requirements
pip -r install requirements.txt
Create your api_key.txt file
"{api_key_here_keep_the_citation_marks}" | Set-Content -Path "api_key.txt"
Create an empty text file named playlist_urls.txt
New-Item -ItemType File "playlist_urls.txt"
Get the playlist ID by going to youtube.com/@creators_handle/playlists and clicking on View full playlist. You can copy the entire url and put it in the playlist_urls.txt file.
If you want to add multiple playlists, simply put them each one on a new line.
If you'd like to only put in the ID, that's also valid. The ID is the part of the url that's after ?list=.
The playlists_url.txt file's contents are cleared after being read.
After that you can run the script with:
python main.py
Notifications should pop up and a file named stored_values.json should appear. That file simply stores which playlists you're tracking and the latest addition to the playlist in question.
If you'd like to run it as a task, you can use Windows Task Scheduler to do so.
If you need the program to clear thumbnails on each run, change clean_bool = False on line 143 to clean_bool = True.
Not all creators keep their latest video at index 0 and instead move their videos around, usually to keep chronological order. This script is pretty useless for those playlists until I find a decent solution.